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Auteurs principaux: Schepens, Tijl, Feys, Thomas, Eriksson, Thomas, Callebaut, Gilles
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14869
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author Schepens, Tijl
Feys, Thomas
Eriksson, Thomas
Callebaut, Gilles
author_facet Schepens, Tijl
Feys, Thomas
Eriksson, Thomas
Callebaut, Gilles
contents Sub-Terahertz radio-stripe and distributed MIMO architectures promise extreme spatial reuse and multi-GHz bandwidths, but the cascaded fiber front-haul and RF hardware impairments strongly shape end-to-end performance. This paper presents an open-source, configuration-driven simulator that models the full waveform-level signal chain from CP-OFDM baseband generation in the central unit, through measurement-parameterized polymer microwave fiber and coupler links, to booster/active Radio Units (RUs) with configurable nonlinearity, noise, in-phase and quadrature imbalance, and oscillator phase noise and carrier frequency offset. Wireless propagation is supported via lightweight deterministic and stochastic per-subcarrier channel models as well as site-specific ray-tracing datasets generated with a companion Sionna ray-tracer module. The simulator exports intermediate waveforms and system metrics (e.g., normalised mean square error, signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio, bit error rate) to enable reproducible studies of impairment accumulation, calibration, and algorithmic choices such as RU selection and beam management.
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spellingShingle An Open-Source Hardware-Aware Sub-THz Radio-Stripe Simulator
Schepens, Tijl
Feys, Thomas
Eriksson, Thomas
Callebaut, Gilles
Signal Processing
Sub-Terahertz radio-stripe and distributed MIMO architectures promise extreme spatial reuse and multi-GHz bandwidths, but the cascaded fiber front-haul and RF hardware impairments strongly shape end-to-end performance. This paper presents an open-source, configuration-driven simulator that models the full waveform-level signal chain from CP-OFDM baseband generation in the central unit, through measurement-parameterized polymer microwave fiber and coupler links, to booster/active Radio Units (RUs) with configurable nonlinearity, noise, in-phase and quadrature imbalance, and oscillator phase noise and carrier frequency offset. Wireless propagation is supported via lightweight deterministic and stochastic per-subcarrier channel models as well as site-specific ray-tracing datasets generated with a companion Sionna ray-tracer module. The simulator exports intermediate waveforms and system metrics (e.g., normalised mean square error, signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio, bit error rate) to enable reproducible studies of impairment accumulation, calibration, and algorithmic choices such as RU selection and beam management.
title An Open-Source Hardware-Aware Sub-THz Radio-Stripe Simulator
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14869