Spirent Advanced Channel Modeling

As telecommunications networks continue to move toward 5G and merge with satellite communications networks, scenarios for radio frequency and millimeter wave propagation continue to increase in complexity. One of the complexities occurs as a result of massive MIMO, a key physical layer technology for 5G applications that involves the use of large-scale base station (gNB) antenna arrays, which contain as many as 256 elements. Similarly, end user devices will have to accommodate large internal antenna arrays with as many as 32 elements. This combination of high-order antenna arrays results in extremely complicated and intricate environments that are difficult to model in a lab setting for testing purposes. Not with Spirent’s Advanced Channel Modeling (ACM) software and Vertex channel emulator.