A TFR based method for the quality assessment of UMTS signals: an application on the first Italian experimental network

Author

Bernasconi, V. ; Bollea, L. ; Breda, A. ; Daponte, P. ; Maroncelli, G. ; Rapuano, S.

Author_Institution

CSELT, Torino, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1271

Abstract

The paper presents a measurement method set up in order to quickly evaluate the quality of UMTS mobile communications. It works on a time-frequency representation (TFR) of the UMTS QPSK modulated signal, suitably down-converted and digitised. A virtual instrument has been developed and tested on the first Italian UMTS experimental network supplied by Ericsson to TIM in CSELT premises. The results of the field measurement campaign, carried out in order to evaluate the capabilities of this new communication system, have been used to evaluate also the method reliability in order to confirm the results of complex and expensive test benches

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; quadrature phase shift keying; radio access networks; signal representation; signal sampling; telecommunication computing; telecommunication equipment testing; time-frequency analysis; virtual instrumentation; Italian experimental network; QPSK modulated signal; UMTS mobile communication; UMTS signals; W-CDMA signals; digital measurement; field measurement; quality assessment; radio access network; reliability; smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville transform; time-frequency representation; virtual instrument; 3G mobile communication; GSM; Instruments; Laboratories; Multiaccess communication; Quality assessment; Radio frequency; Telecommunication standards; Testing; Time frequency analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928279

Filename

928279