Intel Corporation

Ciano Frost

Christian Rom

Tommaso Balercia

Guillaume Monghal

Jesper Blauendahl

Hung Tuan Nguyen

Marek Rohr

Natural radio environments are emulated using field traces and a channel emulator to test radio devices. In one example, a test includes a field trace source to replay recorded field traces, a protocol tester to receive the replayed field traces to extract configuration parameters from the replayed field traces, to extract signals from the field traces, to send the signals to a device under test, and to receive signals from the device under test, and a channel emulator coupled to the field trace source, and between the protocol tester and the device under test, to receive the replayed field traces, to mix the replayed field traces with signals and to emulate the channel between the protocol tester and the device under test.

Virtualization of natural radio environments using field traces and a channel emulator

Natural radio environments are virtualized to test radio devices. In one example, this is done by extracting signals and messages recorded in the field and injecting them in the operation of a protocol tester. In another example, the radio environment is reproduced by generating channel impulse responses in a ray-tracer, then interpolating them in a channel emulator and supporting the interpolation by means of post-processing. In another example, the radio environment is recorded using a mobile terminal in the field. In another example, natural radio environments are produced by reconstructing realistic cell loads and, as a consequence, intra-cell interference for a given device under test.

Virtualization of natural radio environments to test a radio device

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