Location-based services (LBS), a key feature in new 5G radio (NR), will help personalize services and support a wide range of commercial and public safety use cases. Accurately knowing a user's location allows mobile operators, businesses, and defense organizations to deliver services that advance healthcare, air and road transportation, entertainment, and national security. S8704A Protocol Conformance Toolkit enables test cases to validate location-based services. The toolkit leverages UXM 5G Wireless Test Platform , which uses the full protocol stack to emulate different mobility scenarios in a 5G network.
“We are pleased to support a full range of 5G NR protocol conformance test cases to validate and advance location-based services,” said Muthu Kumaran, senior director at Keysight. “Keysight’s 5G device testing solutions, built on common hardware and software platforms, support thousands of GCF and PTCRB-defined use cases for 5G, in both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) modes, as well as for previous mobile technologies.”
5G device manufacturers need access to a comprehensive set of test cases, including Location-Based Services (LBS), to validate user terminals (UEs) developed to support a diverse range of 5G services. LBS leverages various technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), BeiDou, Galileo, beamforming, angle-based positioning, and round-trip time (RTT) to geographically locate the user. Future applications such as drones and autonomous vehicles will rely on high-precision positioning services for reliable navigation and the safe transport of people and goods.
Keysight's holistic approach to 5G protocol conformance testing enables over 120 chipset and device manufacturers to validate their designs against the latest 3GPP specifications. Comprehensive access to 5G NR protocol test cases, covering technologies such as 5G NR, LBS, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) Application Toolkit (USAT), LTE, and Vehicle-to-Anything (V2X) mobile communication, empowers this ecosystem to quickly and cost-effectively bring new products to market that meet the specifications set by standards organizations and mobile operators.
