5G Testbed

5G Testbed for 57-65 GHz

Future wireless communication systems will use higher frequency bands to circumvent the spectral shortage at lower frequencies. Our testbed is used to study the propagation conditions in the V-band.

Arbitrary waveform generator connected to millimeter wave models in back-to-back configuration

The waveform generator is used either as baseband transmitter in data transmission scenarios or as sounding sequence generator in channel measurements.

The arbitrary waveform generator is capable of directly producing signal with frequency content of up to 32 GHz.

Millimetre wave signal analyser R&S FSW 67 with real time oscilloscope R&S RTO 2044 as digitizer

The spectrum analyser can be used as general purpose 2 GHz bandwidth receiver. The IQ analyzer option and a real time oscilloscope are used for this purpose.

The AWG together with our mmW modules and the FSW can be used as testbed for 60 GHz signals of bandwidths of up to 2 GHz.

An omni-directional receive antenna mounted on an x-y table

An omni-directional receive antenna mounted on an x-y table with an additional elevation over azimuth stage. The background shows the 2.5 GHz testbed, useable as baseband (IF) receiver for small bandwidths.

Positioning table

Our fully upgraded positioning table. This five axis mechanical controller allows to fix the phase center of a horn antenna during directional sweeps.

Selected publication

  • Ronald Nissel, Erich Zöchmann, Martin Lerch, Sebastian Caban, Markus Rupp: Low-Latency MISO FBMC-OQAM: It Works for Millimeter Waves! Poster: IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii; 04.06.2017 – 09.06.2017; in: “IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2017)”, (2017), ISBN: 978-1-5090-6360-4; S. 673-676

Contact: Erich ZÖCHMANN, B.Sc. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.