Research Article
Spectrum-aware Channel and PHY layer modeling for ns3
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.7647, author={Nicola Baldo and Marco Miozzo}, title={Spectrum-aware Channel and PHY layer modeling for ns3}, proceedings={2nd International ICST International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={NSTOOLS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Modeling Simulation Physical Layer Channel Propagation Spectrum Networking}, doi={10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.7647} }- Nicola Baldo
Marco Miozzo
Year: 2010
Spectrum-aware Channel and PHY layer modeling for ns3
NSTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2009.7647
Abstract
The recent interest in tackling the frequency-dependent aspects of communications is pushing a demand for spectrum awareness in simulation tools. Unfortunately, most current network simulators do not deal with this aspect in a satisfactory fashion. In this paper, we present a framework that we developed for the ns3 simulator with the aim of addressing this issue. We discuss the modeling assumptions on which our design is based, and we describe in detail the implementation of the framework as well as of the PHY layer modules that we developed on top of it. Finally, we report some performance evaluation results which show that the proposed solution can achieve a good spectrum modeling accuracy with a modest increase in the computational load.