Release v4.0.2

What's Changed

• Documentation improvements
• Improved quick start and container usage
• Compatibility with ns-3.42

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v4.0.2

Release v4.0.1

What's Changed

• NTN Module Integration in #17
• Upgrade to ns-3.42

More information on this release are available through the following research publication:

• G. Grieco, G. Iacovelli, M. Sandri, M. Giordani, M. Zorzi and L. A. Grieco, "Preliminary Performance Evaluation of a Satellite-to-HAP Communication Link," European Wireless 2023; 28th European Wireless Conference, Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 340-345.

Release v3.0.0

Quick changelog:

• Introduce the Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) module.
• Upgrade to ns-3 version 3.38.
• Support to 2D and 3D Radio Environment Maps (REMs), even though they are tested only for LTE Radio Access Networks (RANs).
• Prefer plain Python code over Jupyter notebooks to make repo more lightweight (maybe Jupyter notebooks can be published on a separate repo, to keep reproducibility and ease usability).
• Use non-standard JSON comments to clarify some aspects of the example scenarios.
• Adopt a new directory structure that better fits the size of IoD_Sim code base, as the one used by ns-3 makes everything quite messy.
• Better VSCode integration.
• Code refactoring and generalizations.

A full paper describing the IRS module in detail is available on arXiv. If you intend to use the IRS module for research, please cite us as:

@misc{grieco2023systemlevel,
      title={A System-Level Simulation Module for Multi-UAV IRS-assisted Communications}, 
      author={Giovanni Grieco and Giovanni Iacovelli and Daniele Pugliese and Domenico Striccoli and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2304.00929},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.NI}
}

The entire simulator is still documented on the following paper:

G. Grieco, G. Iacovelli, P. Boccadoro and L. A. Grieco, "Internet of Drones Simulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1476-1498, 15 Jan.15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3207324.

It can be accessed through IEEE Xplore. A preprint is also available on arXiv and here.

Release v2.0.0

This is an overhauled version of the simulator. The entire description is given in the following publication:

G. Grieco, G. Iacovelli, P. Boccadoro and L. A. Grieco, "Internet of Drones Simulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1476-1498, 15 Jan.15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3207324.
If you intend to use this simulator, please cite us above.

The publication can be accessed through IEEE Xplore. A preprint is also available on arXiv and here.

Release v1.x

This is the original release of IoD_Sim. Even if the commit doesn't exactly match the code described on the corresponding publication, a snapshot archive from 19/06/2019 is given, in order to have the code base that matches 100% the description of the publication.

If you intend to use this release for research, please cite us as:

G. Grieco, R. Artuso, P. Boccadoro, G. Piro and L. A. Grieco, "An Open Source and System-Level Simulator for the Internet of Drones," 2019 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC Workshops), Istanbul, Turkey, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PIMRCW.2019.8880832.

You can find the full paper over IEEE Xplore and a preprint is given here.