Speakers
Description
The "New Space" era has spurred rapid advancements in satellite systems, rekindling interest in technologies like LEO CubeSats, satellite mega-constellations, and satellite swarms. These technological advancements support various applications in SATCOM, such as broadband, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Positioning and Navigation (PNT), and the integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks under 3GPP.
The complex interaction of terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication payloads demands rigorous simulation, yet a lack of transparent, standardized tools currently hampers reproducibility and collaboration.
This workshop introduces a novel, open-source, modular simulation framework developed in Python, designed to simplify and standardize the simulation of satellite communication systems. By providing a user-friendly and collaborative platform, this framework facilitates rapid prototyping, supports novice users in exploring space technology, and meets the sophisticated needs of the NTN research community. After outlining the framework's key features, such as scenario creation, satellite propagation, and RF link emulation, we put its capabilities to the test by interactively implementing the following scenarios in Jupyter Notebooks:
- Coverage analysis of satellite mega-constellations
- RF emulation of IQ baseband of space-to-Earth links
- Interference analysis for a direct-to-cell (D2C) link
- Applications of dynamic distributed satellite systems (swarms)
Additionally, we provide a brief user guide to help researchers integrate their own code, enhancing research reproducibility and collaborative potential.
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| Link to Open Source Code | The open-source framework is still in active development. Link will be provided before the conference starts. Please contact us for preliminary access if requested: michael.petry@tum.de / kevin.li@unibw.de |
