Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Resource scheduling is critical to the transmission performance of RAN, yet existing studies typically adopt self-defined simulation environments and overlook the practical scheduling process. To this end, we present MAC-Arena---a RAN resource scheduling simulator tailored for open and reproducible MAC-layer research. MAC-Arena models realistic delays that affect performance in the scheduling process, supports state-of-the-art physical-layer techniques and channel models, and accommodates both 5G and a potential 6G fully-decoupled RAN architecture that isolates uplink and downlink operations. The simulator abstracts physical-layer computation for efficiency, and is developed to be AI-friendly for evaluating AI-based algorithms.
Authors: Jingbo Liu, Jiacheng Chen, Haibo Zhou
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Awards: G6351160237, G8708255593
OpenAlex ID: W4414109635