Welcome to the webpage of the Vienna 5G Simulators. They are the newest members of the Vienna Cellular Communications Simulators (VCCS) software suite. Currently, there are two 5G simulators under development; the Vienna 5G System Level Simulator and the Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator. They are described in more detail in the following sections.
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Vienna 5G System Level Simulator
For further information about the Vienna 5G System Level Simulator, we provide the following documents:
- A list of features, that gives a coarse overview of the currently implemented features.
- A user manual, that describes the simulator structure, implementation and functionality in more detail. It enables a quick start with the Vienna 5G System Level Simulator and describes how to run simulations with your own specific settings.
Release 1.4 of the Vienna 5G System Level Simulator is available since October 2023 under an academic use license. In case you are interested in this particular simulator, please consider our license agreement and follow the instructions therein. In case of questions, please contact us at vccs@list.tuwien.ac.at.
The simulator requires the MATLAB software (2020b or newer version). The following toolboxes are optional:
- Parallel Computing Toolbox (for running simulations chunks in parallel)
- Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox (for generating Poisson distributed network element positions and some traffic models)
- Communications Toolbox (for using the MATLAB ray tracer)
- CVX (for the Quality of Service (QoS) aware scheduler)
- licensed QUAsi Deterministic RadIo channel GenerAtor (QuaDRiGa) source code (for using the QuaDRiGa channel models)
If you want to cite the simulator within a scientific work, please use
@article{Vienna5GSLS,
title = {Flexible multi-node simulation of cellular mobile communications: the {Vienna 5G System Level Simulator}},
author = {Martin Klaus Müller and Fjolla Ademaj and Thomas Dittrich and Agnes Fastenbauer and Blanca Ramos Elbal and Armand Nabavi and Lukas Nagel and Stefan Schwarz and Markus Rupp},
journal = {EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking},
year = {2018},
month = sep,
volume = {2018},
number = {1},
pages = {17}, doi = {10.1186/s13638-018-1238-7}}
Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator
For further information about the Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator, we provide the following documents:
- A list of features, that gives a coarse overview of the currently implemented features.
- A user manual, that describes the simulator structure, implementation and functionality in more detail. It enables a quick start with the Vienna 5G Link Level simulator and describes how to run simulations with your own specific settings.
Release 1.3 of the Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator is available since October 2022 under an academic use license. In case you are interested in this particular simulator, please consider our license agreement and follow the instructions therein. In case of questions, please contact us at mailto:vccs@list.tuwien.ac.at.
Our simulator supports running simulations in parallel; however, this requires the Parallel Computing Toolbox.
If you want to cite the simulator within a scientific work, please use
title = {Versatile mobile communications simulation: the {Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator}},
author = {Stefan Pratschner and Bashar Tahir and Ljiljana Marijanovic and Mariam Mussbah and Kiril Kirev and Ronald Nissel and Stefan Schwarz and Markus Rupp},
journal = {EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking},
year = {2018},
month = sep,
day = {20},
volume = {2018},
number = {1}, pages = {226}, doi = {10.1186/s13638-018-1239-6}