# Evaluating 60 GHz FWA Deployments for Urban and Rural Environments in Belgium
## 2 Fixed Wireless Access
### Planning Tools for FWA Designs
#### 2.2.1 Industrial Focused Tools
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\begin{tabular}{l l l l l l l l l l l} \hline \hline  & **Main** & **Software** & **Code** & **Solving** & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Technologies**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**5G**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Ref**} \\
**Network Planner** & **Focus** & **Type** & **Language** & **Method** & **Vendor** & **Vendor** & **Vendor** & **Vendor** & **Vendor** \\ \hline ASSET & Industry & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & [26] \\ Atoll & Industry & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & [27] \\ Capgemini & Industry & Service Based & - & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & Yes & [28] \\ Cell Designer & Industry & Licensed & - & Stochastic/MC & - & Yes & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & [29] \\ Hanna & Industry & Licensed & - & - & - & PN & - & - & - & - & [30] \\ Huawei & Industry & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & [31] \\ iBwave & Industry & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & [32] \\ LS Telecom & Industry & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & Yes & [33] \\ NetSim & Industry & Licensed & C, R & Discrete Event & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & Yes & [34] \\ Terragraph & Industry & Open Source & Open/R & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & [1,35] \\ \hline
5G Air Simulator & Research & Open Source & C++ & Event-driven & - & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [36] \\
5G K-Simsys & Research & Open Source & C++ & Time-driven & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [37] \\
5G Toolbox & Research & Licensed & MatLAB & - & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & Yes & - & [25,38] \\ CGA & Research & Licensed & - & - & Yes & Yes & Yes & - & - & - & [39,40] \\ NS-3 (5G-LENA) & Research & Open Source & C++, Phy & Event-driven & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [41] \\ OMNet++ & Research & Open Source & C++ & Event-driven & - & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [42,43] \\ OpenAirInterface & Research & Open Source & C++ & - & - & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [44] \\ OPNET & Research & Licensed & C++ & Stochastic/MC & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & Yes & [45] \\ Viena 5G & Research & Open Source & MatLAB & Event-driven & Yes & Yes & - & Yes & - & - & [46,47] \\ \hline GRAND Tool & Research & Proprietary & Java & Heuristic/MILP & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & Yes & [48, 49, 50, 48, 51, 6, 6, 52, 53, 6, 54] \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Most relevant tools for 5G network modelling and planning. It works mainly in indoor sub-6 GHz bands to predict optimal node location placements, and FWA is not considered for its solution [32]. An other tool is the LSTelecom planning tool, which is able to map existing sites and optimises the network operation with interference assessment, providing maximum possible capacity of already deployed and upgraded 5G networks [33]. The NetSim uses the 5G NR library to simulate end-to-end across all layers of the 3 GPP protocol stack. This tool is used for industry and research and can evaluate existing implementations and validate future extensions in emulated scenarios, being the only industrial tool capable of simulating aerial networks [34; 55]. The Terragraph project provides an open-source Link-Level network planning tool with software defined network (SDN) capabilities for a 60 GHz mesh network backbone for an FWA use case. This software is intended to provide network planning for cloud-based network real deployments with of the shelf equipment under the open-software methodology, using either SDN or software defined radio (SDR) for low-cost implementation [1; 35].