System-Level Simulation

5G NR multinode communications

5G Toolbox™ system-level simulations model multinode networks. The simulations operate across a protocol stack that includes physical (PHY), medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and application layers. Model a New Radio (NR) waveform by using 5G Toolbox PHY and channel modeling features. You can evaluate the network performance with different data traffic models, MAC scheduling strategies, and PHY algorithms. You can also analyze the effect of intercell interference, measure quantities like throughput, scheduling fairness, block error rate (BLER), and spectrum efficiency, and use visualization capabilities to explore the performance of the network. In addition, you can export protocol packets to packet capture (PCAP) and packet capture next generation (PCAPNG) files for network analysis.

Functions

`pcapReader`	PCAP file reader of protocol packets
`pcapWriter`	PCAP file writer of protocol packets
`pcapngWriter`	PCAPNG file writer of protocol packets
`nrPCAPWriter`	PCAP or PCAPNG file writer of 5G NR MAC packets
`networkTrafficFTP`	FTP application traffic pattern generator
`networkTrafficOnOff`	On-Off application traffic pattern generator
`networkTrafficVoIP`	VoIP application traffic pattern generator
`networkTrafficVideoConference`	Video conference application traffic pattern generator
`nrMACBSR`	Generate BSR MAC CE
`nrMACBSRDecode`	Decode BSR MAC CE
`nrMACPDUDecode`	Decode MAC PDU
`nrMACSubPDU`	Generate NR MAC subPDU

Topics

Simulation Visualizations
Learn about various simulations visualization across MAC, RLC, and PHY layers.

Featured Examples

NR Cell Performance Evaluation with MIMO

Model a 5G NR cell with MIMO antenna configurations and evaluate network performance.

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NR Cell Performance Evaluation with Beam Management

Model a 5G NR cell with transmit-end beam refinement in DL direction and evaluate network performance.

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NR Intercell Interference Modeling

Model intercell downlink interference caused by gNBs in a network of co-channel cells and evaluate the network performance.

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NR Interference Modeling with Toroidal Wrap-Around

Evaluate the performance of a 19-cell cluster with toroidal wrap-around.

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NR Cell Performance Evaluation with Physical Layer Integration

Model a cell by integrating the higher layers of the stack with 5G Toolbox PHY processing and evaluate the performance.

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Plug In Custom Scheduler in System-Level Simulation

Create and integrate a custom scheduling strategy into system-level simulation framework and observe the network performance.

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NR TDD Symbol Based Scheduling Performance Evaluation

Implement a symbol based scheduling scheme in TDD mode and evaluate the network performance.

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NR FDD Scheduling Performance Evaluation

Evaluate the performance of a scheduling strategy in FDD mode to assign uplink and downlink resources with RLC UM and LCP.

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NR PUSCH FDD Scheduling

Evaluate the throughput and resource share fairness of an uplink scheduling strategy in FDD mode with RLC UM.

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Generate and Visualize FTP Application Traffic Pattern

Generate FTP application traffic pattern based on IEEE 802.11ax-Evaluation-Methodology and 3GPP TR 36.814 specification.

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