OTA Testing of 3G-5G Devices with MIMO: From Anechoic Chambers to Reverberation Chambers and ... Back Again?
Paper in proceeding, 2017

The present paper describes the paradigm shift in OTA testing that came with the arrival of the 4G wireless system. The testing was previously mainly done in anechoic Line-Of-Sight (LOS) environments, and now in 4G it is done in reverberation chambers, emulating Rich Isotropic MultiPath (RIMP). Now we are preparing for the 5G wireless system, which is expected to have mm-wave antennas with steerable lobes. This will require OTA testing in anechoic environments again, but with an emphasis on system measurements, i.e. data rate throughput for an arbitrary location and orientation of the user, referred to as Random-LOS.

reverberation chamber

Random-LOS

anechoic chamber

antenna measurements

throughput

RIMP

Author

Per-Simon Kildal

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Andres Alayon Glazunov

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium

1522-3965 (ISSN)

Vol. 2017-January 1697-1698
978-1-5386-3284-0 (ISBN)

International Symposium of IEEE-Antennas-and-Propagation-Society / USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting
San Diego, USA,

Subject Categories

Computer Engineering

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2017.8072891

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