Design and Analysis of 5G Scenarios with 'simmer': An R Package for Fast DES Prototyping

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how the 'simmer' R package can efficiently simulate complex 5G network scenarios, offering a balance between simplicity and powerful features for network protocol analysis.

Contribution

It introduces the use of 'simmer' for 5G simulation, showcasing its effectiveness and low implementation cost compared to traditional tools.

Findings

Efficient simulation of 5G scenarios with 'simmer'

Low implementation complexity

Supports complex network protocol analysis

Abstract

Simulation frameworks are important tools for the analysis and design of communication networks and protocols, but they can result extremely costly and/or complex (for the case of very specialized tools), or too naive and lacking proper features and support (for the case of ad-hoc tools). In this paper, we present an analysis of three 5G scenarios using 'simmer', a recent R package for discrete-event simulation that sits between the above two paradigms. As our results show, it provides a simple yet very powerful syntax, supporting the efficient simulation of relatively complex scenarios at a low implementation cost.