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.

A transceiving device includes a calibration signal generation unit, a phase adjusting unit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit, and a calibration unit. In a calibration mode, the calibration signal generation unit generates an in-phase (I) test signal and a quadrature (Q) test signal. The phase adjusting unit adjusts the I test signal and the Q test signal to generate an adjusted I test signal and an adjusted Q test signal according to a phase controlling signal. The transmission unit generates a radio frequency (RF) signal according to the adjusted I test signal and the adjusted Q test signal. The receiving unit receives the RF signal so as to generate an I receiving signal and a Q receiving signal. The calibration unit generates the phase controlling signal according to the I test signal, the Q test signal, the I receiving signal, and the Q receiving signal.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may transmit a set of reference signals to an assisting device; and receive, from the assisting device, a set of feedback signals corresponding to the set of reference signals, wherein the set of feedback signals is to facilitate calibration of at least one antenna element on at least one panel associated with the wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A translation device, a test system, and a memory system are provided. The translation device includes plural first input/output (I/O) circuits that respectively transmit and receive first signals through plural pins based on a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)-M mode, a second I/O circuit that transmits and receives a second signal through one or more pins based on a PAM-N mode, and a translation circuit that translates the first signals into the second signal and translates the second signal into the first signals. M and N are different integers of 2 or more.

A system includes a method for detecting a signal interference in a communication signal of a wireless communication system. An identified source of the signal interference is determined according to an interference profile of a plurality of interference profiles associated with an interference profile library having information that approximates characteristics of the signal interference. The signal interference of the communication signal is mitigated according to an interference parameter associated with the identified source by filtering the communication signal according to the interference parameter.

A system includes a method for detecting a signal interference in a communication signal of a wireless communication system. An identified source of the signal interference is determined according to an interference profile of a plurality of interference profiles associated with an interference profile library having information that approximates characteristics of the signal interference. The signal interference of the communication signal is mitigated according to an interference parameter associated with the identified source by filtering the communication signal according to the interference parameter.

Disclosed herein is a transponder comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The transponder further comprises a receiver input amplifier, a bypass line, and a control unit configured for determining the performance of the transponder in relation to an OSNR related parameter, by controlling the transponder to generate a noise signal to be received by the receiver. The receiver input amplifier is operated to thereby cause ASE in the receiver input amplifier to facilitate the determination. A test signal is generated at the transmitter Said noise signal and said test signal, and/or one or more respective replicas thereof, are superimposed to form a combined signal to be received by said receiver to further facilitate determination of said performance related parameter based on said combined signal, wherein for generating said combined signal, said test signal is fed from the transmitter to the receiver by means of said bypass line.

An echo estimation system includes a transceiver circuitry and a processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is coupled to the transceiver circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to calculate linear echo power and non-linear echo power based on a signal under test in the transceiver circuitry. The linear echo power and the non-linear echo power are utilized to determine a quality of the transceiver circuitry or utilized to determine component parameters of the transceiver circuitry.

Mechanisms for performance degradation reporting in a microwave system, which comprises a point-to-point wireless microwave link, are provided. A method is performed by a controller entity. The method comprises obtaining classified microwave link data. The classified microwave link data represents microwave link data of the point-to-point wireless microwave link as classified to operating conditions in a set of operating conditions. The method comprises detecting performance degradation affecting data throughput in the microwave system by analysing performance data of the point-to-point wireless microwave link. The method comprises determining, by using the performance data and cause of the performance degradation that attention from an operator entity in the microwave system is required. The cause is defined by the microwave link data as classified to the operating conditions. The method comprises providing an indication to the operator entity only when attention from the operator entity is required. The indication is an indication of the performance degradation and the cause of the performance degradation.

an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) output signal produced by a device in response to an OFDM input signal is accessed. The OFDM input signal includes OFDM input symbols in the time domain and the OFDM output signal includes OFDM output symbols in the time domain. The OFDM output symbols are time-aligned to the OFDM input symbols and a phase of the OFDM output signal is de-rotated with respect to the OFDM input signal. A complex equalization filter is applied to the OFDM output symbols in the time domain to obtain an estimate of the OFDM input symbols A distortion signal of the OFDM output signal is determined by subtracting the estimate of the OFDM input symbols. An error vector magnitude (EVM) is determined by dividing a root mean square of the distortion, by a root mean square of the OFDM input signal.