Implementation and Calibration of the 3GPP Industrial Channel Model for ns-3

Abstract

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.

System-Level Performance Evaluation of 5G Use Cases for Industrial Scenarios

“…The authors mainly analyze the channel characterization of all sub-scenarios by comparing them with the 3GPP InH channel model. In [15] an implementation and calibration of the InF channel model sub-scenarios is done for the system-level simulator ns-3. Although these contributions represent a first step towards the evaluation of the InF channel model, it is necessary to explore further aspects.…”

“…This simulator is one of the most popular open-source software within the research community, where several scenarios of the 3GPP channel model are implemented, including InF. The integration of the industrial channel model into the ns-3 simulator and the calibration, as mentioned above in [15], was published by the authors of this work. Thus, this work already has a precedent in evaluating industrial scenarios, and this paper would be the second step in our research on industries and verticals.…”