5G/6G

Android Apps for Voice, Video and Data Quality Testing have been announced by GL Communications. Voice Analysis includes POLQA MOS, Video Conference testing with Video/Audio MOS, and Data Testing supporting a wide array of data tests, over any network including 3G, 4G, LTE, 5G, and beyond.

A collaboration on one of the world’s fastest and most accurate tools for 5G Millimeter Wave (mmWave) channel characterisation has been announced by NI and AT&T. mmWave frequencies look to play a big role in the future of 5G. They have already been earmarked by the FCC, 3GPP and other standardization bodies for 5G mobile networks.

Research institute of CEA Tech, Leti, has announced a European and South Korean project, 5G CHAMPION, to deliver what it claims to be the world’s first fully integrated and operational 5G prototype in conjunction with the 2018 Winter Olympics. The team of eight European and 13 Korean partners will develop a new architecture that provides an efficient end-to-end system performance encompassing cutting-edge 5G radio-access, core-network ...

Interlligent UK will be holding its third RF and microwave design seminar at the Møller Centre, Cambridge, on Thursday 18th May. Entitled RF, microwave and millimetre-wave design techniques towards 5G systems, it builds on the success of previous events to highlight key topics in the industry. Experts in the field will focus on one of the key frontiers of today’s wireless technology – design considerations and practic...

The world’s first public demonstration at 28GHz of a real-time, over-the-air prototype aligned with the Verizon 5G specification was given by NI at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in San Francisco. The system uses OFDM with eight component carriers in a 2x2 downlink MU-MIMO configuration with hybrid beamforming and a self-contained subframe, yielding a 5Gbit/s peak throughput, and is scalable to over 20 Gbi...

A collaboration between a team of 5G engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, National Instruments (NI), and BT, has seen a research team undertake field trials of a massive MIMO system at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Suffolk. The trials were conducted in a large indoor hall mimicking a stadium environment and outdoors within the Adastral Park campus.

A new family of miniature horn antennas that are designed to be used for millimetre-wave testing in 5G developments and EMC compliance has been released by Link Microtek. Ideal for test houses or manufacturers of E-band radio communications equipment, the AMHA-V1 series of horns can be utilised as either transmitters or receivers for measurements of products’ electromagnetic susceptibility or emissions in accordance with international EMC s...

  In today’s 2017 Budget statement, Philip Hammond unveiled a new 5G internet investment strategy for the UK. In response, Cobham Wireless and Mimosa discuss below the necessary next steps for the UK, in order to capitalise on this investment opportunity.

Rohde & Schwarz announced at Mobile World Congress that it is expanding the internal analysis bandwidth of its R&S FSW high end signal and spectrum analyser to 1.2 GHz by introducing the new R&S FSW-B1200 option. This test solution enables R&D users to analyse wideband signals in detail. No other instrument is needed as an external digitiser.

Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on developing test solutions for 5G. A first joint 5G technology proof-of-concept trial for 28 GHz beam tracking for mobile environments is being showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona.