Flexible 5G Testbeds for Waveform Generation and Analysis
白皮书
A challenge of today’s 5G research is the many waveforms, frequencies, and bandwidths being investigated. This includes waveforms at frequencies below 6 GHz, as well as waveforms at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies. In addition, some of the waveforms may involve wide bandwidths. These introduce new test challenges for 5G signal generation and analysis--flexibility is key for today’s 5G research. This whitepaper will discuss some of the candidate waveforms, and then introduce a new flexible testbed for 5G waveform generation and analysis. This testbed combines software solutions with test equipment to investigate and to perform “what-if” scenarios for new emerging 5G waveform applications. Co-existence scenarios between candidate 5G and 4G waveforms will be investigated. Wideband signal generation and analysis case studies will be shown at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies with modulation bandwidths up to 2 GHz.