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Systems and methods for testing the performance of and simulating a wireless communication device

US7508868B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 2, 2005
Grant dateMar 24, 2009
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Expiry dateJul 12, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B17/3911
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system abstracts channel information from field data gathered in actual wireless communication system environments. The abstracted data is then transformed into control signals or programming codes that can be used to control channel simulators so as to recreate the field conditions, including path loss, slow fading, fast fading, path delay, fading power spectral density with and without line-of-sight (LOS), and different kind of handoff scenarios, such as soft, softer, intra-band hard, inter-band hard handoffs. The system thus can accurately simulate a realistic wireless communication link originated from multiple signal sources in different band channels and formed by multipath signal propagation. The simulated realistic wireless communication link can be condensed by selecting the most useful scenarios from its original field data files or modified by tuning its parameters as desired.

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