Goal
5G Lab is an interdisciplinary team with more than 500 researchers and aims to deliver key technologies for enabling 5G. The 5G Holistic Testbed consists of several connected test-beds which enable holistic research approaches for areas from silicon, wireless, networks, edge clouds and applications. The 5G Physical Layer test-bed consists of a core hardware platform with four NI PXI units and several USRP-RIOs, spectrum analyzers, channel emulator, networking hardware, which enable test and evaluation of novel physical layer schemes, in indoor as well as outdoor environments. The 5G Network layer test-bed consists of 150 meshed mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, drones, mobile robots) with a research focus on networking coding to enhance meshed, multi-hop, multi-path and secure communication. Several 5G tactile application test-beds are also used.
Applications
- Focus on low latency and high reliability
- Industry 4.0 Applications
- Human-Machine collaboration
- Autonomous driving
- Robot-assisted tele-surgery
Parameter
- Macro cells 3.75 GHz
- Microcells, 3.75 GHz, 26 GHz, 60 GHz
- Optical transport network
Framework conditions
- Network technology independent
- End-to-end tests
- Indoor/Outdoor
Technology
- Software-Defined Radio (SDR)
- Frequency range: 10 MHz to 6 GHz
- Bandwidth: 160 MHz
- Can be used with WiFi, LTE, 5G NR or internal or external proprietary developments
- Embedded FPGA and CPU
- Various HF front ends
- Powerful Cloud Platforms as Backend
Test equipment
- National Instruments SDR
- Ettus SDR
- HPE Edgecloud Server
Access
- Open to project partners and agreements
- Fed4FIRE compatible
Target group
- Internally through project partners
- Research facilities
- Mobile Radio/Solution Provider 5G