LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments

Michael Charitos; Di Kong; Jue Cao; Denys Berkovskyy; Angelos A. Goulianos; Tom Mizutani; Fai Tila; Geoffrey Hilton; Angela Doufexi; Andrew Nix

doi:10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108512

LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments

Michael Charitos, Di Kong, Jue Cao, Denys Berkovskyy, Angelos A. Goulianos, Tom Mizutani, Fai Tila, Geoffrey Hilton, Angela Doufexi, Andrew Nix

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In this paper, a Virtual Drive Testing (VDT) methodology for a MIMO LTE Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) urban scenario is proposed and compared with actual road drive tests. We have developed a unique and generic radio performance analysis process based on 3D ray traced channel models, theoretic or measured antenna patterns, RF channel emulation and hardware-in-the-loop radio measurements. A 3D ray-tracing channel model is used to predict the spatial and temporal multipath ray components of the radio propagation channel between an LTE BS and the vehicle. Measured LTE vehicular antenna patterns were then applied using a spatial and polarimetric convolution process. The resulting channels were streamed into a Keysight PropSim F8 channel emulator, which was programmed to communicate with the multi-channel LTE BSs emulator and a Samsung S5 mobile client performing a handover procedure. The VDT emulation method proposed in this paper is shown to be reliable and repeatable and the accuracy of the emulated throughput agreed well with real measurements for MIMO operation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2017)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 4-7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1780-1784
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509059324
ISBN (Print)	9781509059331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108512
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018
Event	85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2017 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 4 Jun 2017 → 7 Jun 2017

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ISSN (Print)	1550-2252

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Conference	85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2017
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	4/06/17 → 7/06/17

Keywords

Emulation
Handover
LTE
MIMO
Ray Tracing channel model
V2I

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Charitos, M., Kong, D., Cao, J., Berkovskyy, D., Goulianos, A. A., Mizutani, T., Tila, F., Hilton, G., Doufexi, A., & Nix, A. (2018). LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments. In 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 4-7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia (pp. 1780-1784). Article 8108512 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108512

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LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments. / Charitos, Michael; Kong, Di; Cao, Jue et al.
2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 4-7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018. p. 1780-1784 8108512.

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Charitos M, Kong D, Cao J, Berkovskyy D, Goulianos AA, Mizutani T et al. LTE-A Virtual Drive Testing for Vehicular Environments. In 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 4-7 June 2017, Sydney, Australia. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2018. p. 1780-1784. 8108512 Epub 2017 Nov 16. doi: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108512

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