R&S®SMW-K55 EUTRA/LTE

• In line with 3GPP LTE TS 36.211 v.10.6.0, TS 36.212 v.10.7.0 / TS 36.213 v.10.8.0
• LTE FDD and TD-LTE support
• Uplink and downlink signal generation
• Antenna precoding for SISO, MIMO and diversity signals
• Flexible antenna port mapping
• Channel coding incl. generation of fixed reference channels (FRC)
• Enhanced test models (E-TM)
• Graphical LTE time plan for view of subframe configuration (resource blocks vs. time/OFDM symbols)
• Test case wizard for LTE base station conformance tests in line with 3GPP TS 36.141

The introduction of HSDPA and HSUPA has not put an end to the evolution of UMTS radio access networks. In order to ensure competitiveness, concepts for UMTS long term evolution (LTE) were investigated and finally led to Release 8 of the 3GPP standard – EUTRA/LTE. The objective was to achieve a high-data-rate, low-latency, and packet-optimized radio-access technology.

Notably, EUTRA/LTE uses new multiple access schemes on the air interface: OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) in the downlink and SC-FDMA (single carrier frequency division multiple access) in the uplink. Furthermore, MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antenna schemes form an essential part of LTE.

The R&S^®SMW-K55 option provides R&D engineers who work on LTE with a powerful and versatile solution for generating LTE signals with the R&S^®SMW200A signal generator. The option is in line with Release 10 of the 3GPP LTE standard and covers the physical layers of both downlink and uplink.