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Network simulators are indispensable tools for the advancement of wireless network technologies, offering a cost-effective and controlled environment to simulate real-world network behavior. However, traditional simulators, such as the…
The evolution toward 6G communication systems is expected to rely on integrated three-dimensional network architectures where terrestrial infrastructures coexist with non-terrestrial stations such as satellites, enabling ubiquitous…
Ray tracing (RT) has recently gained renewed interest in wireless communications, driven by its integration into digital twin (DT) frameworks for site specific channel modeling. Several previous studies have validated RT at the channel…
This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite System typically performs poorly in urban environments when there is no line-of-sight between the devices and the…
The use of fingerprinting localization techniques in outdoor IoT settings has started to gain popularity over the recent years. Communication signals of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), such as LoRaWAN, are used to estimate the…
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been richly researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more pragmatic to…
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on TensorFlow. Since release v0.14 it integrates a differentiable ray tracer (RT) for the simulation of radio wave propagation. This unique feature allows for…
Radio applications are increasingly being used in urban environments for cellular radio systems and safety applications that use vehicle-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure. We present a novel ray tracing-based radio propagation…
Evaluating cellular systems, from 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G-Advanced to 6G, is challenging because the performance emerges from the tight coupling of propagation, beam management, scheduling, and higher-layer interactions. System-level…
Fingerprinting techniques, which are a common method for indoor localization, have been recently applied with success into outdoor settings. Particularly, the communication signals of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) such as Sigfox,…
This paper evaluates the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) optimization algorithms, which utilize channel estimation methods, in ray tracing (RT) simulations within urban digital twin environments. Beyond Sionna's…
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…
Ray-tracing (RT) simulators are essential for wireless digital twins, enabling accurate site-specific radio channel prediction for next-generation wireless systems. Yet, RT simulation accuracy is often limited by insufficient measurement…
The upcoming roll-out of the new wireless communication standard for wireless railway services, FRMCS, requires a thorough understanding of the system performance in real-world conditions, since this will strongly influence the deployment…
Differentiable ray tracing has recently challenged the status quo in radio propagation modelling and digital twinning. Promising unprecedented speed and the ability to learn from real-world data, it offers a real alternative to conventional…
This paper proposes a soft range limited K nearest neighbours (SRL-KNN) localization fingerprinting algorithm. The conventional KNN determines the neighbours of a user by calculating and ranking the fingerprint distance measured at the…
Global Navigation Satellite Systems typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions between devices and satellites is low. Therefore, alternative location methods are required to achieve good…
Localization in outdoor wireless systems typically requires transmitting specific reference signals to estimate distance (trilateration methods) or angle (triangulation methods). These cause overhead on communication, need a LoS link to…
Millimeter waves is one of 5G networks strategies to achieve high bit rates. Measurement campaigns with these signals are difficult and require expensive equipment. In order to generate realistic data this paper refines a methodology for…
We propose a data-driven approach for large-scale cellular network optimization, using a production cellular network in London as a case study and employing Sionna ray tracing for site-specific channel propagation modeling. We optimize base…