Azimuth Systems, a provider of automated, real-world mobile performance test solutions, in partnership with Qosmotec, is developing a Car-to-Car (C2C) interoperability test solution.
Qosmotec provides air interface emulation equipment for wireless network testing.
The partnership will combine Qosmotec’s signal strength emulator QPER with Azimuth’s ACE MX channel emulator to deliver a solution that simulates all traffic, mobility and channel aspects of a C2C environment.
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“Now, where Car-to-Car technology is on the step between research activities and rollout on the streets, systems for interoperability testing become indispensible,” said Mark Hakim, managing director at Qosmotec.
Testing Car-to-Car communication in the lab requires the emulation of a significant number of radio links (each of which maps to a link between two cars), some links requiring primarily just attenuation and others requiring a complete radio channel.
The joint solution with Azimuth enables Qosmotec to offer a best fitting solution for emulating air interface conditions on a test bench. This will accelerate the deployment of Car-to-Car communication, Hakim added.
Qosmotec’s field strength emulator system provides the attenuation links for these tests; the field strength emulator offers a large number of configurable links that can be configured to reflect the different path loss between the cars.
Azimuth’s ACE MX channel emulator complements Qosmotec field strength emulator by emulating the complete radio channel for links that require a complete radio channel. The QPER-C2X software controls this integrated solution and provides a graphical interface to create and configure the physical environment and the traffic model.
Qosmotec’s QPER-C2X is a signal strength emulator enabling to interconnect up to 15 radio modules and thus simulating a high number of individual radio as they are established in Ad-Hoc networks. It emulates all kind of signal strength effects like path loss, shadowing, fast fading or antenna shaping on each individual path.
Commenting on this partnership, Pete Paglia, president of Azimuth Systems, said, “Azimuth has a strong track record of developing innovative solutions for emerging applications and we see C2C as an area where we can contribute to this evolving industry by leveraging our leadership in channel and environment emulation along with our solutions expertise.”
The companies plan to provide end-to-end real world test solutions that help their mutual customers better emulate the environment and test C2C more comprehensively.
