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Collection Methods for High-SNR I/Q Recordings of FDD LTE User Equipment Emissions

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Author(s)

Keith Forsyth, Aric Sanders, Dan Kuester, Adam Wunderlich

Abstract

This report documents collection methods for high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) radio frequency (RF) recordings of long-term evolution (LTE) uplink emissions from a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) handset in a fully conducted environment. A base station emulator was used to configure the handset to statically transmit over various LTE physical resource block configuration for 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, and 10 MHz uplink channels centered at 1770 MHz in LTE Band 66, which is a frequency-division duplex (FDD) band. The aim of this effort was to acquire a dataset that could be used to aid the development of computational models for emissions from real-world communication hardware.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2286
Report Number
2286
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2286
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Keywords

I/Q Data, Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Advanced communications

Citation

Forsyth, K. , Sanders, A. , Kuester, D. and Wunderlich, A. (2024), Collection Methods for High-SNR I/Q Recordings of FDD LTE User Equipment Emissions, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2286, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957533 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created May 3, 2024
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