VILLASnode

VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway - Published in JOSS (2025)

https://github.com/villasframework/node

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Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: VILLASframework
License: apache-2.0
Language: C++
Default Branch: master
Homepage: https://fein-aachen.org/projects/villas-node/
Size: 69.6 MB

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Stars: 15
Watchers: 5
Forks: 13
Open Issues: 74
Releases: 1

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simulation villas

Created about 3 years ago · Last pushed 4 months ago

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VILLASnode

This is VILLASnode, a gateway for processing and forwarding simulation data between real-time simulators. VILLASnode is a client/server application to connect simulation equipment and software such as:

OPAL-RT RT-LAB,
RTDS GTFPGA cards,
RTDS GTWIF cards,
Simulink,
LabView,
and FPGA models

by using protocols such as:

IEEE 802.2 Ethernet / IP / UDP,
ZeroMQ & nanomsg,
MQTT & AMQP
WebSockets
Shared Memory
Files
IEC 61850 Sampled Values / GOOSE
Analog/Digital IO via Comedi drivers
Infiniband (ibverbs)

It's designed with a focus on very low latency to achieve real-time exchange of simulation data. VILLASnode is used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen, Germany.

Documentation

User documentation is available here: https://villas.fein-aachen.org/docs/

Related Projects

MIOB
DINO

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! If you want to contribute to VILLASnode, please visit the contribution guidelines in our documentation.

License

VILLASnode is licensed on a per-file basis under multiple open-source licenses. Each source file contains an SPDX license identifier and copyright attribution in accordance with the REUSE Software guidelines. For attribution, please refer to the SPDX headers in each file. The Apache 2.0 license covers most of the codebase and is preferred for new contributions. License compliance is automatically checked in CI, including validation of licenses in the LICENSES/ directory.

We kindly ask all academic publications employing components of VILLASframework to cite one of the following papers:

A. Monti et al., "A Global Real-Time Superlab: Enabling High Penetration of Power Electronics in the Electric Grid," in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 35-44, Sept. 2018.
S. Vogel, M. Mirz, L. Razik and A. Monti, "An open solution for next-generation real-time power system simulation," 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Beijing, 2017, pp. 1-6.

For other licensing options please consult Prof. Antonello Monti.

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2025 The VILLASframework Authors
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Contact

Steffen Vogel post@steffenvogel.de
Niklas Eiling niklas@eil.ing
Felix Wege fwege@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
Alexandra Bach alexandra.bach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) EON Energy Research Center (EONERC) RWTH University Aachen, Germany

Owner

Name: VILLASframework
Login: VILLASframework
Kind: organization
Email: villas@lists.rwth-aachen.de
Location: Aachen, Germany

Website: https://fein-aachen.org/projects/villas-framework/
Repositories: 0
Profile: https://github.com/VILLASframework

VILLASframework is a toolset for local and geographically distributed real-time co-simulation.

JOSS Publication

VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway

Published

August 29, 2025

DOI

10.21105/joss.08401

Volume 10, Issue 112, Page 8401

Authors

Steffen Vogel

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, OPAL-RT Germany GmbH

Niklas Eiling

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Manuel Pitz

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Alexandra Bach

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Marija Stevic
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, OPAL-RT Germany GmbH

Prof. Antonello Monti

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Aachen, Germany

Editor

Daniel S. Katz

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  given-names: Manuel
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-2029"
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  given-names: Alexandra
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7385-4642"
- family-names: Stevic
  given-names: Marija
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  given-names: Prof. Antonello
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doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16917994
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
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  date-published: 2025-08-29
  doi: 10.21105/joss.08401
  issn: 2475-9066
  issue: 112
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
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  title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"
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  volume: 10
title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"

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Last synced: 5 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 6,170
Total Committers: 34
Avg Commits per committer: 181.471
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.238

Past Year

Commits: 237
Committers: 10
Avg Commits per committer: 23.7
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.603

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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 4 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 150
Total pull requests: 305
Average time to close issues: over 5 years
Average time to close pull requests: 17 days
Total issue authors: 8
Total pull request authors: 14
Average comments per issue: 4.04
Average comments per pull request: 1.39
Merged pull requests: 218
Bot issues: 0
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Average time to close pull requests: 6 days
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Average comments per pull request: 1.49
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Total packages: 3
Total downloads:
- pypi 91 last-month

Total dependent packages: 0
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Total dependent repositories: 3
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Total versions: 71
Total maintainers: 3

proxy.golang.org: github.com/villasframework/node

Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/villasframework/node#section-documentation
License: apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.0.1
published 4 months ago

Versions: 31
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0

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Average: 5.6%

Dependent repos count: 5.8%

Last synced: 4 months ago

proxy.golang.org: github.com/VILLASframework/node

Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/VILLASframework/node#section-documentation
License: apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.0.1
published 4 months ago

Versions: 31
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0

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Average: 5.6%

Dependent repos count: 5.8%

Last synced: 4 months ago

pypi.org: villas-node

Python support for the VILLASnode simulation-data gateway

Homepage: https://villas.fein-aachen.org
Documentation: https://villas-node.readthedocs.io/
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.11.1
published over 1 year ago

Versions: 9
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 3
Downloads: 91 Last month

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Dependent packages count: 10.1%

Average: 15.3%

Downloads: 26.8%

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Last synced: 4 months ago

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