The Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile communications has brought a change of paradigm in the way cellular technologies are conceived. 5G has been designed to provide services not only to people, but also to industries and verticals. One of the verticals that will benefit most from the 5G is the Industry 4.0. Channel modeling for this vertical is receiving significant attention, mainly due to the increased complexity that comes with multipath fading scenarios. In order to overcome this problem, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defined a new stochastic channel model as part of called Indoor Factory (InF). This paper describes the implementation process of this channel model as an extension tool for one of the most wellknown open-source software simulators, ns-3. Calibration results have been obtained and compared with other 3GPP references. This work permits to use ns-3 as a reliable tool for evaluating new industrial scenarios and use cases.
The Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile radio technologies represents a change of paradigm in mobile communications by serving not only users but also verticals. Given the increasing number of use cases identified for industrial scenarios, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defined a set of relevant use cases for Indoor Factory (InF) scenarios with their associated requirements and channel models to theoretically study signal propagation in these environments. In this context, this work first studies these InF scenarios by means of System-level Simulations (SLSs). By selecting the most demanding sub-scenario, we then carry out a performance evaluation of the specific 5G industrial use cases with the most stringent requirements, following 3GPP assumptions. Three use cases from the thirteen defined by the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have been carefully selected: massive wireless sensor networks, autonomous mobile robots, and augmented reality. The results demonstrate the fulfillment of the performance requirements in each use case, validating 5G as an enabler technology for future industry verticals.
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