CoSiFra
CoSiFra is an open-source co-simulation framework for mobile network simulation. The framework can integrate a wide array of existing simulators for 5G/6G network simulation, road traffic, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellites. Both homogeneous (same simulator) and heterogeneous (different simulators or different types of simulators) co-simulations are supported. Its architecture is designed to be modular and extensible, allowing researchers to easily add new simulators and features: simulations are executed as a set of containers which use gRPC for communication and synchronization.
CoSiFra serves as the cornerstone of use case evaluations in the 6G-TWIN project, enabling comprehensive and realistic simulations of future 6G networks and their applications.
If you are using CoSiFra (or components of it) we would appreciate a citation:
Touhid Hossain Pritom, Burkhard Hensel, Mario Franke and Christoph Sommer, "Towards a Generic Middleware-Based Interface for Mobile Communication Simulation," Proceedings of 29th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2025), Prague, Czechia, September 2025.
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Source Code
The source code can currently be found on GitHub, along with a documented example on how to use it. Please be aware that we might need to change the repository location in the future. We will then update the link on this page accordingly.