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LG Uplus Develops Simulator to Predict 5G Base Station Coverage
Published2017.08.10 17:07Input over 60 items to calculate signal strength and data speed
LG Uplus announced on the 10th that it has jointly developed a '5G Millimeter Wave Simulator (mmWave Simulator)' capable of predicting 5G base station coverage with Hanyang University's 'HY-MC Research Center (Director Seung-won Choi)'.
The 5G simulator was developed to be able to calculate various information related to network design, such as signal strength by location, signal strength against noise, and data speed, by inputting about 60 essential items required for building a mobile communication network, such as frequency band and bandwidth, base station and terminal information, terrain, and building height and area.
LG Uplus explained that as the 28GHz frequency, which has the characteristic of reflecting or absorbing radio waves from surrounding obstacles, is rapidly emerging for 5G services, it developed a 5G simulator together with Hanyang University to design an efficient network utilizing the characteristics of high frequencies for 5G.
Hanyang University’s HY-MC Research Center, which has an industry-academia partnership with LG Uplus, is an academic institution that actively participates in the establishment of international mobile communication standards and holds numerous patented technologies, and is actively carrying out 5G-related projects such as the ‘research on network virtualization base technologies for mobile communication systems after 4G.’
We plan to use the 5G simulator developed in collaboration with Hanyang University to build a test network until a commercial simulator is secured, and based on this development experience, we intend to produce a more advanced simulator in the future to build a commercial 5G network and provide high-quality 5G services.
It is expected that further advancement of the simulator will enable its use in predicting 5G communication vulnerable areas, improving quality through cause analysis, and predicting services that can be provided to customers.
"We have entered into industry-academia collaboration with university research institutes to foster future engineers who form the basis of market-leading innovation," said Kim Dae-hee, Senior Vice President of Network Strategy at LG Uplus. "We will continue to further solidify our cooperative relationship with universities in the future."
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