The 6G Exploration Library enables you to explore, model, simulate, and test candidate 6G waveforms and technologies. Engineers and researchers are working on various 6G enabling technologies, such as 6G PHY designs, AI and machine learning, channel models, RF components for higher frequencies, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), RF sensing, and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS).
Through reference designs and examples, you can use the library to:
- Generate waveforms with parameters extending beyond the limits of the 5G NR specifications.
- Simulate 6G-candidate links, including transmitter operations, channel models, RF impairments, and reference receiver algorithms. Compute metrics, including throughput and error vector magnitude (EVM) .
- Evaluate link performance in 7–20 GHz, mm-Wave, and sub-Terahertz ranges.
- Model reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and experiment with propagation scenarios with and without the presence of blockages.
- Apply AI techniques to solve 6G wireless communications problems.
- Speed up simulations by using multicore computers and clusters.
6G Waveform Exploration
Explore, model, test, and generate candidate 6G waveforms. Apply arbitrary subcarrier spacing and resource block allocation parameters beyond the maximum values stipulated by the 5G NR standard. Customize and analyze spectra of 6G waveforms featuring different sample rates and transmission bandwidths.
6G Link-Level Simulation
Measure the throughput of a candidate 6G link. Explore larger bandwidths and subcarrier spacings than 5G systems. Use parallel processing to speed up the simulation through multiple workers on the desktop or in the cloud. Simulate a communication link that uses Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation.
6G Waveform Hardware Impairment Measurements
Explore the impact of hardware impairments at sub-THz frequencies on a candidate 6G waveform. Simulate effects of phase noise, power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity, and filters to limit spectral emissions outside the channel bandwidth. Measure the adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) and EVM of the impaired waveform.
RIS Modeling
Simulate a RIS channel using two concatenated clustered delay line (CDL) channel models. Develop iterative algorithms to control the phases of each RIS element. Transmit a 6G candidate signal through the RIS channel and analyze the constellation of the received signal.
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