Measurement capability upgrade for a 5G reverberation chamber.

这项研究工具和仪器补助金（RTI）的提案侧重于获得魁北克省学术机构唯一混响室（RC）的硬件和软件升级。要求RC通过仿真真实的多径信道和环境来表征多输入多输出（MIMO）系统。MIMO技术在当前使用，并且将是未来无线标准的主要技术。RC将提供MIMO系统（天线、收发器、实际设备等）在可实现的信道容量（每秒数据比特）、分集增益和相关性方面的实际性能。** 仪器升级的重点是将连接到测量矢量网络分析仪（VNA）的端口从2个扩展到4个，以便通过RC独立并行同时连接到两个主要频段，覆盖600 MHz 6GHz和24 GHz 40 GHz。这一升级将加快收集时间，延长真空室和连接VNA的使用寿命，从而降低收集成本和维护费用。升级包括购买一个模块，以扩展VNA端口，使其拥有两个以上的端口，覆盖100 Khz 44 GHz的频率范围。此外，RC（E600）需要进行硬件升级，以适应这一端口扩展，实现两个采集波段之间的无缝自动切换。需要进行软件升级，以适应新的端口，并加快处理和收集时间。 ** 一个庞大的社区将从此次升级中受益，包括研究人员，工程师和学生，他们需要为蒙特利尔的学术和研究机构和公司测量他们的新设备和天线系统的性能和特性。

This proposal for research tools and instrumentation grant (RTI) focuses on obtaining hardware and software upgrades to the capabilities of the only reverberation chamber (RC) in an academic institution in Québec. A RC is required to characterize multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems by emulating real multipath channels and environments. MIMO technology is used in current and will be a major technology for future wireless standards. An RC will provide the actual performance of a MIMO system (antennas, transceiver, an actual device, etc) in terms of achievable channel capacities (data bits per second), diversity gains and correlation. ******The instrumentation upgrade will focus on extending the ports connected to the measuring vector network analyser (VNA) from 2 to 4 to have independent parallel simultaneous connections to the two major bands of interest covering 600 MHz 6GHz and 24 GHz 40GHz with the RC. This upgrade will speed up the collection times and extend the lifetime of the chamber and connecting VNA, thus reducing collection costs and maintenance fees. The upgrade consists of a module purchase to extend the VNA ports to have two more ports covering the frequency range from 100Khz 44GHz. In addition, a hardware upgrade on the RC (E600) is required to accommodate this port extension for seamless automatic switching between the two collection bands. A software upgrade is required to accommodate the new ports, as well as speed up the processing and collection times. ******A large community will benefit from this upgrade, including researchers, engineers and students that are in need to measure the performance and characterizes of their new devices and antenna systems for future generation wireless communications for Montréal academic and research institutions and companies.**