Realistic signal propagation model for Artery

[AshFungor]

Hey, @riebl! I've been working on adapting Sionna RT to use as INET physical environment for Artery, which also includes IPathLoss implementation to actually utilize calculated signal propagation paths. The code itself does not rewrite Sionna RT, just adopting Python API calls for Cpp and INET interfaces. Would you be interested in having such thing here? I've looked at OMNeT++ products, haven't seen anyone using ray tracer, so I thought this would be a nice feature for Artery :)

[riebl]

Hi @AshFungor!

Sure, how do you plan to integrate the external code (Sionna RT)? I am not a fan of copying files around, so maybe we can manage a venv via CMake for this purpose?

[AshFungor]

well, I did that to some extent already :)

Yes, Sionna is managed out of venv currently. There is some manual setup at this moment of course, but other than that configuration is done via CMake with option for Sionna enabled. Here's the code, actually - https://github.com/CAVISE/artery/tree/main/src/cavise/sionna.

[AshFungor]

I can bring up a PR suitable for upstream repo on weekends