The NIST Q-D Channel Realization software is a Three-Dimensional (3D) ray-tracing software developed in Matlab. It provides a flexible, scalable, and realistic channel model based on measurement campaigns to promote the design of next-generation wireless communication and sensing systems at millimeter-wave bands. This new release includes the following new features:

1. Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Support

2. New material libraries management, including NIST measurement-based, Task Group ay-based or custom libraries

3. Configurable antennas orientation and devices rotation

4. New reference indoor and outdoor scenarios

5. Sensing application support

You can find detailed documentation here. Moreover, a complete tutorial showing the creation of the IEEE conference room example folder including the CAD file is available on the NISTube website. This tutorial is made of 6 videos where:

1. Overview: gives an overview of the scenario's creation process.

2. General Concepts: presents the general concepts for the scenario creation.

3. Sketch Concepts: explains how to sketch the conference room scenario.

4. Export: depicts how to export the scenario to AMF format.

5. Material: introduces the addition of the materials to the 3D scenario.

6. Setup Example: demonstrates how to prepare the scenario folder as expected by the software.

Physical layer is the lowest layer in the IEEE 802.11ay protocol stack, which directly handles bit-level transmission and reception over wireless channels. Thanks to the NIST measurement-based channel model, this PHY software can be used to evaluate the IEEE 802.11ay PHY performance under different channel conditions. The NIST IEEE 802.11ay EDMG Physical Layer Model, implemented in Matlab, provides an end-to-end simulation platform, including transmitter and receiver with the following features:

1. IEEE 802.11ay Single Carrier/OFDM waveform generation.

2. IEEE 802.11ay spatial multiplexing schemes: SU-SISO, SU-MIMO, and MU-MIMO.

3. Evaluation of link-level bit error rate, packet error rate and spectral efficiency.

4. Receiver algorithms supported: synchronization, channel estimation, channel equalization, and carrier frequency offset detection and correction, among others.

The software enables the baseband link-level simulation of the IEEE 802.11ay PHY standard. In addition, it supports the system-level simulation for the IEEE 802.11ay communication systems.