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We are glad to congratulate João Albuquerque for successfully completing his Google Summer of Code project, which focused on extending the NR module (5G-LENA) to support legacy non-spatial channel models, adding support for the NYUSIM channel model, and creating a new channel helper to facilitate channel setups. The channel helper also checks for valid calibrated configurations, preventing users from using unsupported configurations unless explicitly configured. João’s work is included in Merge Request (MR) !174 (https://lnkd.in/drzU9Yr4), which is currently in the final stages of revision and is expected to be merged into the NR module's master branch soon.   His mentors are Biljana Bojovic, Gabriel Ferreira, and Amir Ashtari. Summary of her project here: João’s contributions build on his experience integrating Ray-Traced channel models with ns-3 during his final undergraduate work. His motivation stems from identifying opportunities to refactor and simplify simulation setups, making it easier to detect invalid configuration combinations while maintaining flexibility for custom channels, such as those developed by him. This also benefits work on the upper layers, recently merged into NR 3.2, by providing simpler models that reduce simulation time when more realistic channels aren't necessary. His key contributions in MR !174 are the following: channel helper to set up valid channel configurations, or explicitly setup custom configurations; NYUSIM and FTR support; legacy non-spatial channel models support; unit-test to check the channel helper works as intended; and an example to demonstrate the usage of the helper to set up the channel configuration.  read more here: https://lnkd.in/dqZD2mXu

Draft: GSoC 2024: Refactor band configuration and initialization with a modular approach (Enhancement) (!174) · Merge requests · OpenSim / nr · GitLab

Draft: GSoC 2024: Refactor band configuration and initialization with a modular approach (Enhancement) (!174) · Merge requests · OpenSim / nr · GitLab

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Biljana Bojovic

PhD, Senior Telecom Researcher and Networking Systems Software Engineer

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Excellent work João Albuquerque! Thanks to your GSoC 2024 contribution, ns-3 5G-LENA can now be used with the New York University channel model (up to 150 GHz frequencies!), 3GPP NTN channel model, FTR model, and any other custom channel model, such as raytracing models. Also, 5G-LENA can finally be tested on a large scale with much simpler non-spatial channel models and simpler ns-3 antenna models, allowing the testing of higher-layer protocols in large network setups. Bravo,  João! Thank you for your hard work!

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