Methods and apparatuses for interference measurement. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information on at least three reference signal (RS) resources. Two of the at least three RS resources correspond to channel state information interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources. The method further includes measuring interference based on the CSI-IM resources, calculate a beam metric based on the measured interference, and transmitting the beam metric.

A method and arrangement for testing wireless connections is provided. The method comprises obtaining (500) a three-dimensional model of a given environment; obtaining (502) ray tracing calculations describing propagation of radio frequency signals in the given environment; locating (504) one or more devices in the given environment; determining (506) utilising ray tracing calculations the radio frequency signal properties of one or more devices communicating with the device under test; transmitting (508) control information to the radio frequency controller unit for updating the connections between one or more devices and a set of antenna elements to match with the determined properties; obtaining (510) information on the location and propagation environment of the one or more devices and updating (512) the radio frequency signal properties of the one or more devices if the location or propagation environment changes.

Device and method can be provided for emulating a system which includes a wireless channel, a wireless transmitter, and a wireless receiver. For example, with an emulation processor, it is possible to receive baseband data, process the received baseband data, and transmit the processed baseband data. Further, with a controller, it is possible to receive configuration information pertaining to the wireless channel, the wireless transmitter, and the wireless receiver to be emulated; and configure the emulation processor according to the received configuration information.

The present disclosure relates to a method for generating synthetic wireless channel data, comprising: proving wireless channel data in a latent space, wherein the wireless channel data comprises a plurality of datasets, wherein each dataset represents channel characteristics of a wireless communication channel and comprises a plurality of channel attributes; receiving a user input which defines at least one channel attribute; mutating the wireless channel data, wherein during said mutation only channel attributes of wireless channel data other than the at least one channel attribute defined by the user input are allowed to mutate; and generating synthetic wireless channel data based on the mutated wireless channel data in latent space.

An antenna comprising a reflector (20) connected to a motor drive (30), a primary radiator (30) for transceiving a radio beam at an operating frequency impinged on the reflector (20) is disclosed. A coarse alignment system comprising a motor drive is connected to the reflector (20) for driving at least one of the rotation and the tilting of the reflector. The coarse alignment system (70; 270; 370; 470) comprising an auxiliary antenna (50) connected to the control device (60) for communicating with a further auxiliary antenna (10b), at a second frequency different from the operating frequency. A fine alignment system is also present for electronic adjustment of the radio beam. A control device controls the coarse alignment system and the fine alignment system.

The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitate allocating resources to zones for IOT equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method discussed herein includes identifying, by carrier allocation equipment, carrier transmission information corresponding to transmission of a first carrier signal configured to support Internet of things equipment. The method can further comprise analyzing, by the carrier allocation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine coverage information corresponding to a potential for coverage, by the first carrier signal, of an Internet of things equipment support zone corresponding to a geographic area. The method can further include, based on the coverage information, facilitating configuring transmission parameter information, representative of a transmission parameter applicable to the coverage of the Internet of things equipment support zone by the first carrier signal.

Methods, devices and systems are provided for diagnosing a wireless module of a device. An exemplary method involves operating a second wireless module of the device to transmit data on a second wireless channel that overlaps, at least in part, a first wireless channel. A measured response associated with the first wireless channel concurrent to the data transmitted on the second wireless channel is obtained from the first wireless module and a remedial action is initiated with respect to the first wireless module based at least in part on the measured response.

There is provided a mobile terminal test apparatus capable of easily assigning and setting a frequency of each CC in the same frequency band of carrier aggregation. An operation unit 4 that accepts an operation input from a user, a display unit 5 that displays an image, and a control unit 6 that sets a contiguousness relationship of the plurality of component carriers and sets a predetermined premise parameter of the component carrier, and then automatically sets the parameter of the component carrier defined by a predetermined communication standard, by designating a type of the contiguousness relationship and a predetermined designation parameter are included.

A technique capable of realizing improvement of utilization efficiency of resources such as frequency with respect to MIMO, beam forming, and the like is provided. A transmission/reception method according to an embodiment is a transmission/reception method of transmitting and receiving data between a transmission device 1 with a plurality of transmitting antennas and a reception device 2 with a receiving antenna, and includes: a generating step of generating, by the transmission device 1 or the reception device 2, characteristics of a plurality of pseudo propagation channels on a basis of characteristics of a plurality of actual propagation channels between the plurality of transmitting antennas and the receiving antenna, the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels being characteristics similar to frequency characteristics to an extent that the frequency characteristic can be approximated with respect to the characteristics of the plurality of actual propagation channels; a transmitting step of creating, by the transmission device 1, one or more data to be transmitted by reflecting the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels to a plurality of parallel and independent data, and transmitting the one or more data from the plurality of transmitting antennas as radio waves; and a receiving step of extracting, by the reception device 2, the plurality of parallel and independent data from one or more received data received as the radio waves by the receiving antenna on a basis of the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels.

A method and system for testing of base stations of a mobile telecommunications network having a plurality of cells. A base station at its antenna is connected to a testing system by a radio frequency cable. Mobile terminals of a cell are emulated. The mobile terminals transmit data and sends/receives calls within the cell via the base station. A separate channel emulator is provided for each emulated mobile terminal.