Dear Community,
We are happy to announce a new release of the Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator, that is version 1.3.
The simulator is provided for free under an academic, non-commercial use license. For this, please consider the license agreement that can be found on our website (Vienna 5G Simulators). Companies, no matter whether profit-oriented or not, can purchase a license.
The new features and improvements are listed in the change log below.
Best regards,
The Vienna Cellular Communications Simulators Team
Changelog
Newly introduced features:
- introduce a graphical user interface for generating scenarios
- introduce RIS nodes
- new localization framework
- new geometric layout and path loss models
- implementation of single carrier modulation
- support interference cancellation for uplink multi-user transmissions
- consequently, support uplink NOMA
- support sphere decoding for layers with different CQIs
Bug fixes and improvements:
- bug fix in CQI feedback calculation for multi-user MIMO
- bug fix in pilot aided channel estimation
- add Hilly Terrain channel model
- wrapped Gaussian distribution for the AOD and AOA
- calculation of LOS AOA based on the positions of the nodes
- bug fix in generate 5G codebook
- the sphere decoder no longer requires a Matlab toolbox