Stimulus-Response Testing for LTE Components

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The 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) specifications present some new challenges for manufacturers of components and equipment for LTE systems. The standard is quite complex, with multiple channel bandwidths, different transmission schemes for the downlink and uplink, both frequency and time domain duplexing (FDD and TDD) transmission modes, and use of multipleinput, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna techniques. LTE will co-exist with current 2G and 3G cellular systems, so potential interference is an important issue. All of this leads to high performance targets for LTE systems, and the performance of the underlying components and devices will be a key factor in whether those targets will be met.