Dataset: On the Properties of Next Generation Wireless Backhaul

This dataset contains all the data used in the Paper: "On the Properties of Next Generation Wireless Backhaul" sent to Transaction of Network Science and Engineering.

It is divided into three main archives:

The first archive, called geodata.zip, contains the Data Surface Model (DSM) and the topographical maps used to generate the intervisibility graphs. These maps have been aggregated from different sources and they are all released under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. It is divided into two folders: 'dsm' and 'topo_maps':

 'dsm' contains the Data Surface Model (DSM) of the nine areas used in our research. Each area is saved in a separate .tif file and can be used directly from the tool. The projection system is EPSG:3003.

'topo_mapsì contains the PostGIS dump of the tables containing the topographical maps of the cities. In order to use them, you have to import those in PostGIS and connect our tool to the PostGIS DB.
The CTR files (technical region maps) are divided by region, while the openstreetmap file (osm.tar) contains the whole Italian peninsula. All the geographical data are projected in the reference system EPSG:3003. The CTR of Campania is unavailable due to licensing incompatibilities.

The second archive, called visibility_graphs.zip, contains the visibility graph we have generated using our tool. It is released as a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.  It is divided into folders, one for each area of the analysis. Each folder contains two files:

best_p.csv : contains the ids of the nodes associated with their coordinates on a cartesian projection. The projection is EPSG:3003

intervisibility.adj : contains the intervisibility graph represented as an adjacency matrix. It can be read by common libraries such as networkx or igraph. The intervisibility has been calculated 2m above the building.

The third folder, called network_topologies.zip, contains the network topologies we have computed using a State-of-the-Art algorithm from Polese et Al. The folder is divided into two folders: '30gNB' and '60gNB', corresponding to the density of base stations for square km. It s further divided in 9 folders (one for each area), then divided on the basis of the model we use for the visibility graph. You can find more information about these models in section V of the paper. In this last folder we have two sets of 50 files, which are the intervisibility graph of that set of Base Stations and the topology produced. This dataset has been released under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.

All the results can be replicated using our code which will be released with an open-source license as soon as the article is published.