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Revision as of 20:14, 11 January 2016

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Overview

ns-3 is well-known for providing high fidelity, packet-level models of Wi-Fi and LTE, but simulation studies to date have not tried to combine the technologies on the same channel. In industry, 3GPP is defining standards for using LTE in unlicensed spectrum. The term License-Assisted Access (LAA) is frequently used to refer to these extensions, and refers to the fact that the use of unlicensed spectrum is complementary to the use of licensed spectrum for LTE, with the unlicensed spectrum providing complementary or secondary carriers that can be aggregated with carriers on licensed frequencies.

This page describes a project sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance to improve ns-3 models to facilitate studies about the coexistence of Wi-Fi and unlicensed variants of LTE on the same channel. The project is being conducted by CTTC and the University of Washington.

Design

Phase 1

This phase has produced a new Wi-Fi Spectrum-based physical layer, enabling Wi-Fi devices and LTE devices to coexist on the same ns-3 channel. Beyond this enabling capability, several enhancements to the ns-3 models have been made:

  • Enhancements to Wi-Fi clear-channel access (CCA) and frame synchronization models
  • A Wi-Fi roaming model for AP selection based on received signal strength
  • LTE interference model enhancements
  • New indoor and outdoor propagation models
  • Wi-Fi MIMO and interference models for fading model D
  • Duty-cycled LTE transmission model
  • Scenarios corresponding to the indoor and outdoor scenarios defined in 3GPP TR36.889
  • A framework for executing simulation campaigns and quickly plotting the results

Phase 2

Current work is focused on developing models related to the current standardization process for Release 13. In particular, a "Listen-Before-Talk" (LBT) mode is being developed for LTE, and scenarios are being constructed to evaluate technical topics such as the sensitivity on performance on the Energy Detection threshold used for the LBT CCA mechanism.

Software

The software is available in a repository at ns-3's main code server, http://code.nsnam.org:

  • The phase 1 code is available with Mercurial, can be browsed on the web, or by download in a zip or tar.bz2 format.
  • The phase 2 code (under current development as of this January 2016 writing) is available with Mercurial, can be browsed on the web, or by download in a zip or tar.bz2 format.

The software will eventually be migrated to ns-3 releases, but as of the latest ns-3.24 release, none of the above extensions are available in the main release.

The extensions reside in four main directories:

  • Scripts, tests, and documentation to construct simulations involving these new models are in 'src/laa-wifi-coexistence'
  • Extensions to LTE to enable unlicensed variants are in 'src/lte'
  • Extensions to the Wi-Fi module to enable the SpectrumWifiPhy and new error models are in 'src/wifi'
  • Propagation model extensions are in 'src/propagation'

Reports

A contribution to the November 3GPP RAN1 meeting (R1-156621) has been generated. Steps to reproduce the experiments in the contribution are documented in the file 'src/laa-wifi-coexistence/experiments/README.txt' in the phase 2 repository.

Additional reports discussed internally in the Wi-Fi Alliance may be available from the Wi-Fi Alliance repositories.

Getting started

Note: more information to reproduce the latest data and figures will be linked here shortly.

All figures and data in the 3GPP RAN1 meeting contribution can be generated by following the steps in the above ns-3-lbt Phase 2 archive by consulting the README.txt in the software directory under 'src/laa-wifi-coexistence/experiments/README.txt'.

Steps to reproduce figures and data from recent telecons, and additional documenatation, will be posted here shortly.

Tom Henderson can provide some support to vendors who are interested in getting started; contact him by email if interested.

Contacts

Contact Tom Henderson (tomhend@u.washington.edu) for more information.