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NVIDIA says open-source 5G/6G tools pass 1 million downloads
NVIDIA said Friday its Aerial and Sionna open-source wireless tools have surpassed 1 million downloads and are in use at more than 8,000 research institutions working on 6G systems.
NVIDIA said Friday that its open-source 5G and 6G wireless software has surpassed 1 million downloads and is in use at more than 8,000 research and academic institutions, a year after it released Aerial wireless code alongside the Sionna library1.
In a company blog post, NVIDIA said developer adoption of NVIDIA AI Aerial and NVIDIA Sionna grew 10 times over the past year1. The post described the tools as a way for researchers to connect simulation and AI training with over-the-air wireless experiments1.
NVIDIA said researchers at King's College London linked a camera-equipped robot arm to an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin running Sionna for software-defined 5G and edge AI1. In fruit-packing and cube-stacking tests with introduced faults, the company said a goal-oriented semantic communications approach cut robot task completion time by up to 52.6% compared with sending periodic images1.
SoftBank integrated a neural receiver into NVIDIA Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN and tested it with a commercial 5G smartphone, NVIDIA said1. In controlled tests with interference, the company said the neural receiver produced higher uplink throughput than a conventional receiver at all 15 tested settings, with a maximum gain of about 60%1.
Using NVIDIA Aerial Testbed, ETH Zurich researchers found that tuning neural receivers with local measurements reduced block error rates by more than one-third compared with selected pretrained versions, according to the post1.
At the University of Leeds, researchers used a portable NVIDIA DGX Spark-powered 5G "network-in-a-box" and a digital twin to forecast demand and sleep unused base stations, NVIDIA said1. The team reported a 45.6% reduction in radio access network power use versus a full-power baseline while keeping devices connected, the post said1.
The Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya is feeding GPU-accelerated radio channel models running on Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN into its open-source 5G-LENA simulator, NVIDIA said1. An early evaluation cut simulation runtime from about three hours to 10-20 minutes, depending on the integration, while preserving expected statistical behavior, the company said1.
NVIDIA pointed researchers to GitHub repositories for Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN and Sionna and to 6G developer sessions at NVIDIA GTC in Washington, D.C.1. The download, adoption and experiment figures are NVIDIA's; the cited labs were not quoted independently in the post1.
