Project Overview

Project Name: IUNS-3 5G NR: Improving the Usability of ns-3's 5G NR Module
Student: Giovanni Grieco
Mentors: Tom Henderson, Katerina Koutlia, and Biljana Bojovic
Google page: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/projects/oeDFknbT
Project Goals: IUNS-3 5G NR is a GSoC '23 medium-size project proposal that offers a general purpose introductory scenario to dive into the 5G New Radio world, unlocking the ability for users, from university students to research scientists and engineers, to know the 5G architecture in detail and enable them to use the simulator for research and development.
Repositories:
- https://gitlab.com/ggrieco/ns-3-dev - ns-3 personal fork
- https://gitlab.com/ggrieco/nr - NR module personal fork
About Me: I am a second-year PhD Student in Electrical and Information Engineering at Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, focused on Telecommunications Engineering and, more specifically, the Internet of Drones. ns-3 orbited so much around my university career, as I have been developing IoD-Sim, a ns-3 module for the Internet of Drones, since my bachelor's final thesis in 2019. ns-3 still remains my primary tool to test out experimental protocols, applications, and communication technologies that would otherwise require very expensive infrastructure to reproduce in the laboratory.

Milestones

Read 3GPP TR 38.300 as an overview. In general, we will look to align with 3GPP terminology and specifications.
Start to document somewhere (Google doc, or Sphinx) the lifecycle of these UDP packets-- what are the interesting things that happen to each packet to get it through the RAN?
Start to migrate LOG statements so that interesting logs are in NS_LOG_INFO and NS_LOG_WARN. See WifiHelper::EnableLogComponents()-- we should come up with a similar one for NrHelper::EnableLogComponents (level=INFO by default). Alternative is to place dedicated methods in the nr examples, tailored to logs of interest.
Enable traces: //nrHelper->EnableTraces(); perhaps controlled by a command line argument. How can these help the new user?
Line 453 of cttc-nr-demo.cc states: // From here, it is standard NS3. In the future, we will create helpers for this part as well. Start to create such helpers, focusing first on application and TFT configuration.
Start to experiment with the ConfigStore loading and saving of attributes and default values.
Measuring latency within the NR RAN-- new trace sources at ingress and egress of NetDevice? Packet tags?