Verification of the Vienna 5G Link and System Level Simulators and Their Interaction

Abstract

Numerical simulation of wireless communications systems is an important means within the process of development and evolution of mobile communications specifications. We offer a software suite to the academic society for free under an academic use license that enables the community to perform simulations of relevant scenarios for 5G and beyond in a reproducible manner. To cover a variety of potential scenarios for future mobile communications systems, we offer the Vienna 5G Link Level (LL) Simulator and the Vienna 5G System Level (SL) Simulator. In this contribution, we perform a verification of our LL and SL simulators which allows us to claim simulation results to be valid. As the Vienna 5G SL Simulator relies on link performance simulation results carried out with the Vienna 5G LL Simulator, we further consider their interaction in the context of verification.