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Title: Efficient Abstractions for Implementing TGn Channel and OFDM-MIMO Links in ns-3
Packet-level network simulators such as ns-3 require accurate physical (PHY) layer models for packet error rate (PER) for wideband transmission over fading wireless channels. To manage complexity and achieve practical runtimes, suitable link-to-system mappings can convert high fidelity PHY layer models for use by packet-level simulators. This work reports on two new contributions to the ns-3 Wi-Fi module, which presently only contains error models for Single Input Single Output (SISO), additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. To improve this, a complete implementation of a link-to-system mapping technique for IEEE 802.11 TGn fading channels is presented that involves a method for efficient generation of channel realizations within ns-3. The runtimes for the prior method suffers from scalability issues with increasing dimensionality of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. We next propose a novel method to directly characterize the probability distribution of the"effective SNR" in link-to-system mapping. This approach is shown to require modest storage and not only reduces ns-3 runtime, it is also insensitive to growth of MIMO dimensionality. We describe the principles of this new method and provide details about its implementation, performance, and validation in ns-3.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1836725
PAR ID:
10192383
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
WNS3 2020
Page Range / eLocation ID:
33 to 40
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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