Measurement Method for Beam Steer Execution Time

Abstract

For the last thirty years, data rates in mobile networks have been increasing. To satisfy the demand for mobile data transfer, the use of mobile networks has to be more effective and more frequency bandwidth has to be allocated. In the already heavily used sub-6-GHz spectrum, no additional bandwidth is available. Therefore, the mobile network has to operate in the millimeter wave regime to provide a high data rate for the user. In this challenging part of the spectrum, the new antenna systems must be characterized to comply with 3GPP rules. This paper addresses a part of the metrological challenges, which is the measuring of the beam steer execution time.