Reduction of emulated channel count for phased-array systems through angle-of-arrival processing

    公开(公告)号:US12088355B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18045354

    申请日:2022-10-10

    CPC classification number: H04B17/0087 H04B17/0085 H04B17/16 H04B17/3912

    Abstract: Systems and methods for emulating a channel for wireless communications between a transmit (TX) system-under-test (SUT) and a receive (RX) SUT. The TX and RX SUTs include integrated antenna arrays for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. For a plurality of paths of the emulated channel, and for each antenna element of the TX SUT, a respective phase shift and gain modification is applied to a wireless signals transmitted by the respective antenna element. The phase shifts and gain modifications emulate path length differences between different antenna elements. The signals for each antenna element are summed, and a path-specific modification is applied to each aggregate signal for each path. For each RX antenna element, phase shift and gain modifications are applied to emulate path-length differences for the RX antenna elements, the resultant signals are summed for each path, and the emulated wireless signals are output to the RX antenna elements.

    Fault detection device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11971439B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US17329902

    申请日:2021-05-25

    Inventor: Bunsei Murakami

    CPC classification number: G01R29/10 H04B17/16 H04B17/17

    Abstract: A fault detection device executes a test signal supply process for changing a frequency of a carrier wave within a frequency range predetermined as a range of a resonance frequency of an antenna, modulating the carrier wave with a test signal as an input signal, amplifying the carrier wave that is modulated, and supplying the carrier wave that is amplified as an output target signal to the antenna. While executing the test signal supply process, the fault detection device measures an antenna current corresponding to the frequency each time the frequency of the carrier wave is changed The fault detection device detects a fault caused by a difference or a change in a characteristic of the antenna by using a value of the antenna current on a larger side among the antenna currents measured during the test signal supply process.

    TEST DEVICE WITH DISTRIBUTED UNIT EMULATION FOR TESTING IN OPEN RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230046743A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17881966

    申请日:2022-08-05

    Abstract: A test device tests conditions associated with a fronthaul in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN). The test device can field test an O-RAN radio unit (O-RU) installed at a cell site by emulating an O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU) in the O-RAN connected to the O-RU via the fronthaul of the O-RAN. The testing includes testing connectivity of the O-RU to the fronthaul. The testing includes executing managing plane (M-plane) and synchronization plane (S-plane) messaging to test management session establishment, device setting testing, and master clock synchronization testing. Additionally, optical insertion loss in the fronthaul and frequency and power of signals transmitted from the O-RU can be tested.

    BASE STATION OPERATION TEST METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND BASE STATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220239391A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-28

    申请号:US17603710

    申请日:2020-04-20

    Abstract: An operation test method of a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable, the method including switching a specific radio communication unit of a plurality of radio communication units to a subordinate mode and setting another radio communication unit of the plurality of radio communication units to a normal mode, the normal mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a base station, the subordinate mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a virtual terminal station, each of the plurality of radio communication units being switchable between the normal mode and the subordinate mode, and conducting an operation test of the base station by performing, based on a test policy that sets the operation test, radio communication between the specific radio communication unit switched to the subordinate mode and the other radio communication unit in the normal mode.

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