Research Article

OTA Testing for Massive MIMO Devices Using Cascaded APM Networks and Channel Emulators

Table 1

Emulation deviations for different cluster settings.

Cluster settingsAngular spectrum with APMAngular spectrum with switch
AoA (°)EoA (°)ASA (°)ESA (°) (dB)r.m.s (dB) (dB)r.m.s (dB)

−20101030.0031−5.25570.0438−3.7885
−2010530.00017−15.24050.00034−9.1467
−2010230.0017−17.13570.002−14.2699
5−51030.0030−14.58620.0585−3.3436
5−5530.00039−26.90300.0069−6.1667
5−5230.00085−22.33490.0019−14.0239
10−51030.0027−11.55190.1405−3.9020
10−5530.00043−26.59430.00071−8.9643
10−5230.00082−22.51810.0019−14.0001