A curated index of open-source software, datasets, testbeds, and reproducible research for 6G. This is the 6G companion to the 100 open-source 5G projects list.
Last reviewed: 11 August 2026
Note
6G is still a research field rather than a deployed standard. Inclusion here means that a project explicitly targets 6G research; it does not imply 3GPP compliance, production readiness, or endorsement.
- Added the ETSI OpenOP Release 1 operator-platform project.
- Added the DeepVerse 6G and BUPTCMCC-6G-DataAI+ multimodal/channel datasets.
- Added NVIDIA's Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin and the 6G-SANDBOX testbed ecosystem.
- Added VOTA, a reproducible framework for parallel virtualized OTA experiments.
| Project | Focus | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| ETSI OpenOP | Operator platform for telco-cloud federation and 6G experimentation. Release 1 was announced on 18 March 2026; code is Apache-licensed. | Project · Release 1 · License |
| 6G-SANDBOX | European experimentation platform for validating 6G technology across distributed testbeds. | Project · GitHub organization |
| OpenAirTwin | Open-source digital twin for experimenting with wireless systems. | Code |
| 6G Testbeds directory | Community-maintained directory of 6G experimental facilities. | Code/site |
| OCUDU | Linux Foundation open-source RAN software and community. | Project |
| Project | Focus | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| DeepVerse 6G | Digital replicas of DeepSense 6G scenarios, combining synchronized vision, LiDAR, radar, positioning, and wireless data. | Dataset |
| BUPTCMCC-6G-DataAI+ | Generative channel data for AI-native air-interface research, spanning mid-band, mmWave, THz, XL-MIMO, RIS, and industrial-IoT scenarios. | Paper |
| DeepMIMO | Ray-tracing-based channel dataset generator for machine-learning research in wireless communications. | Code |
| 6G Channel Estimation Dataset | Synthetic channel-estimation dataset and experiments. | Code |
| Project | Focus | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Sionna | GPU-accelerated, differentiable link-level simulation, ray tracing, and system-level wireless research. | Code · Documentation |
| Sionna Research Kit | Tutorials and reference workflows for AI-RAN prototyping with software-defined radios. | Code · Documentation · Tutorials |
| Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN | GPU-accelerated 5G/6G physical-layer building blocks. | Code |
| Aerial Framework | Components and examples for accelerated RAN development. | Code |
| Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin | Site-specific digital-twin workflows for 6G and AI-RAN simulation. | Code |
| 6G-Bench | Benchmark collection for evaluating AI-enabled 6G use cases. | Code |
| Project | Focus | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Open Cloud Semantic RAN | Cloud-native semantic communications for radio access networks. | Code |
| EdgeGO | Simulation and deployment code for resource sharing in massive-IoT edge computing. | Code · Paper |
| 6G Security | Machine-learning experiments for wireless attack detection. | Code |
| Radio Localization | Learning-based localization for mmWave and THz systems. | Code |
| End-to-End 6G Terahertz Networks | Full-stack simulation artifacts for terahertz networking. | Code · Paper |
| MEC-enabled UAV with IRS-assisted 6G THz Networks | Optimization code for UAV, intelligent-reflecting-surface, and edge-computing scenarios. | Code |
| LEO Satellite Coverage Maximization | MAPPO-based deep reinforcement learning for LEO coverage in sub-THz networks. | Code |
| Radar-aided 6G Beam Prediction | Radar-assisted beam prediction algorithms and real-world demonstrations. | Code · Paper |
| CommLLM | LLM-enhanced multi-agent systems for wireless communications. | Code · Paper |
| LAM4PHY 6G | Large AI models for physical-layer tasks. | Code |
| GenSC-6G | Generative semantic communication research. | Code |
| VOTA | Parallel 6G-RAN experimentation with virtualized over-the-air workloads. | Code · Paper |
Pull requests are welcome. Please include:
- a stable project, code, or dataset URL;
- a one-sentence description of its 6G relevance;
- a paper or official project page when one is available; and
- enough license information to establish that the artifact is open source or openly available.
Projects that only mention “6G” without publishing a reusable artifact may be declined. Please update the Last reviewed date when performing a full link and metadata audit.