Attention

You are reading an old version (0.19.2) of the documentation. For the latest version, see https://nvlabs.github.io/sionna/.

Sionna 0.19.2 Documentation

This webpage hosts the documentation for Sionna 0.19.2. Please refer to the new documentation for information about the latest release.

Where to find detailed information?

• Quickstart
  • Installation
  • “Hello, world!”
• Discover Sionna
  • Load Required Packages
  • Sionna Data-flow and Design Paradigms
  • A note on random number generation
  • Let’s Get Started - The First Layers (Eager Mode)
  • Batches and Multi-dimensional Tensors
  • First Link-level Simulation
  • Setting up the End-to-end Model
  • Run some Throughput Tests (Graph Mode)
  • Bit-Error Rate (BER) Monte-Carlo Simulations
  • Conclusion
• Tutorials
  • For Beginners
  • For Experts
  • Ray Tracing
• Primer on Electromagnetics
  • Coordinate system, rotations, and vector fields
  • Planar Time-Harmonic Waves
  • Far Field of a Transmitting Antenna
  • Modelling of a Receiving Antenna
  • General Propagation Path
  • Frequency & Impulse Response
  • Reflection and Refraction
  • Diffraction
  • Scattering
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
• API Documentation
  • Forward Error Correction (FEC)
  • Mapping
  • Channel
  • Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)
  • 5G NR
  • Ray Tracing
  • Signal
  • Utility Functions
  • Configuration

License and Citation

Sionna is Apache-2.0 licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

If you use this software, please cite it as:

@article{sionna,
 title = {Sionna: An Open-Source Library for Next-Generation Physical Layer Research},
 author = {Hoydis, Jakob and Cammerer, Sebastian and {Ait Aoudia}, Fayçal and Vem, Avinash and Binder, Nikolaus and Marcus, Guillermo and Keller, Alexander},
 year = {2022},
 month = {Mar.},
 journal = {arXiv preprint},
 online = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11854}
}