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NYU Wireless Releases Millimeter Wave Simulator as Open Source

NYU Wireless Releases Millimeter Wave Simulator as Open Source Image Credit: NYU Wireless

NYU Wireless, a unit of New York University announced that it is releasing its channel model simulator and measurement data free and open to the public in an effort to speed up the development of the millimeter wave (mmWave) technology.

The announcement comes just days after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told a Senate committee that the United States will lead the fifth generation of wireless communication (5G) and the allocation of high-frequency mmWave radio-wave spectrum. NYU Wireless said that the simulator will provide the first open access to statistical spatial channel models that are based on the research group’s experiments from 2011 to 2014 that showed the world that mmWave frequencies will work for mobile communication. Already, many companies, including some corporate sponsors of NYU WIRELESS and French telecomm operator Orange, are using it, claims NYU Wireless.

The open-source software includes real-world channel data measured throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. It also allows users to generate channel impulse responses, calculate precise time delays, locate the angles of arrival of energy in urban channels, determine received power levels, and other key technical data needed to create reliable mmWave wireless equipment and systems.

Rappaport, founding director of the research institute
We are able to provide this software suite for use in link level and system level simulations because of the strong and continued sponsorship of many NYU WIRELESS industrial affiliate sponsors and the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as the hard work of many dedicated students and faculty.

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