Institute for Telecommunication Sciences Releases Key Software Model to Boost Collaborative Spectrum-Sharing Research

Any agreement to share spectrum bands will require reliable predictions of how that spectrum will perform in the real world. The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) recently took a major step toward a more collaborative approach to research in this area by publicly releasing an advanced software model for radio wave propagation in urban environments.

This software can be used by consumers, engineers, scientists and others to explore the behavior of radio waves interacting with buildings, trees, and other environmental features. ITS released the software to the public by publishing source code (link is external) on GitHub, an online platform for open-source code. Posting to GitHub will allow researchers to use and modify the code as they wish, as well as collaborate with other researchers and avoid duplicating efforts. ITS hopes that making its source code freely available can advance development of widely accepted propagation models.