Over-The-Air Test Method for Evaluation of 5G Millimeter-Wave Devices under 3D Spatially Dynamic Environment from Single Feeder

Mark A Beach; David  Reyes; Moray Rumney

doi:10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865306

Over-The-Air Test Method for Evaluation of 5G Millimeter-Wave Devices under 3D Spatially Dynamic Environment from Single Feeder

Mark A Beach
, David Reyes^*
, Moray Rumney

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Communication Systems and Networks

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This paper presents a novel Over-the-Air test method that facilitates the excitation of 5G New Radio mobile devices from multiple Angles-of-Arrival in 3D-space to perform Radio Resource Management (RRM) testing, required to evaluate the beamforming capabilities when operating at millimeter wave frequencies. The aim of this test system is to recreate realistic operating propagation conditions in both spatial and temporal domains. The advantage of this method is that up to four simultaneous signals can be generated by a single
2D feeder antenna array with multiple independent radio frequency ports from a unique location, minimizing the use of mechanical positioners. This is achieved by the implementation of multiple plane reflectors tangentially placed to the surface of a semi-ellipsoid. The Device Under Test and Feeder antennas are
centered at the foci, respectively. Simulations and measurements performed show the ability of this method to create the required test environment to test RRM requirements

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022
Publisher	IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Pages	390-393
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-9613-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-9614-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865306
Publication status	Published - 29 Aug 2022

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Name	IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest
Volume	2022-June
ISSN (Print)	0149-645X

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by EPSRC CDT in Communications EP/I028153, Keysight Technologies and Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT)-Ecuador.

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Beach, M. A., Reyes, D., & Rumney, M. (2022). Over-The-Air Test Method for Evaluation of 5G Millimeter-Wave Devices under 3D Spatially Dynamic Environment from Single Feeder. In 2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022 (pp. 390-393). (IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest; Vol. 2022-June). IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865306

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Over-The-Air Test Method for Evaluation of 5G Millimeter-Wave Devices under 3D Spatially Dynamic Environment from Single Feeder. / Beach, Mark A; Reyes, David ; Rumney, Moray.
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