How to successfully test today's 5G automotive connectivity

Today´s vehicles are not only “simple” machines for transportation, they are highend smartphones on wheels with critical requirements towards RF characteristics and modem protocol stack behaviours. Connected vehicles offer a wide range of vehicle applications based on the existing 2G, 3G and LTE technology as well as emerging 5G NR networks. From infotainment features over vehicle manufacturer applications with backend communication (e.g. OTA firmware updates) to automatic emergency call (eCall), more and more services are becoming available in vehicles. Developments for connected vehicles present new challenges for suppliers and car manufacturers to ensure good user experience and performance of the in-vehicle features for the driver and the passenger. Automotive test solutions from Rohde&Schwarz help to optimize all aspects of automotive 5G connectivity. This webinar explains the basics of 5G network topologies and its challenges for RF and protocol stack testing. It covers the R&S CMX500 test concepts for testing backend connectivity including maximum IP data end-to-end tests but also failure conditions such as network reject or EPS-Fallback scenarios. A Q&A session concludes the webinar.

In this webinar, your will learn:

• Understand the basic technical parameters of the 5G network technology
• Learn about the connectivity testing challenges and how to overcome them (based on a CMX500 communication network tester)
• Understand the advantages of the optimized IP and server infrastructure of the CMX500 for best reproducibility and stability
• Discuss the challenges and live-demo of maximum throughput tests
• See the use case of network reject and EPS-Fallback tests

Speakers
Manuel Galozy
Product Manager Protocol Tester
Rohde & Schwarz
Manuel is a subject matter expert for cellular technologies with a strong focus on 5G and LTE RF and protocol stack tests.

Before joing product management team in 2011 he used to support worldwide key customers as an application engineer for CMW500 and CRTU-W.

Manuel gained his first telecom expertise as a GSM and GSM-R expert working for infrastructure vendor Nortel Networks in Friedrichshafen Germany before joining R&S in 2007.

He holds a degree in computer science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Ravensburg, Germany (Dipl.- Ing. (BA) Informationstechnik).

Christian Hof
Product Manager Protocol Tester
Rohde & Schwarz
Christian is product manager within the Test & Measurement division of Rohde&Schwarz in Munich. He is responsible for IP application test for mobile radio tester platforms CMW500 and CMX500. He is specialist for IP throughput testing, VoLTE/VoNR and IP Security Analysis. In addition, he is leading the product strategy for automotive connectivity test solutions like eCall/ERA-GLONASS and C-V2X. Christian Hof joined Rohde & Schwarz in 2004 and hold a Dipl.Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Science Munich, Germany.