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Agilent Technologies, the world’s premier measurement company, offers a full range of design, test, and management solutions that span the range of cellular technologies—from legacy 1G systems through 3G systems such as HSPA to 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 1xEV-DO. Agilent products cover the lifecycle from early design and development, through volume manufacturing, to network deployment and service assurance. See the Quick Guide to Agilent’s Solutions for High-Speed Cellular for an overview of all technologies and supporting product families. To learn more about related technologies consult MIMO Test and Wireless Connectivity. Greater insight. Greater confidence. Accelerate next-generation wireless.

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Mastering the New Base Stations: Design and Test of ADPA and Digital Transceivers for 3G Radios. 
This paper examines adaptive digital pre-distortion (ADPD) technology and the test challenges associated with implementing ADPD amplifiers and digital radio transceivers.

Application Note 2005-02-01

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Measuring ACLR Performance in LTE Transmitters 
This note focuses on the adjacent channel leakage-power ratio (ACLR) test, a vital one for LTE.

Application Note 2010-01-07

Measuring Bit Error Rate Using the Agilent ESG-D Series RF Signal Generators Option UN7 
As digital communication technologies continue to evolve, the measurement of bit error rate (BER) increases in importance. BER is used in a variety of applications, such as sensitivity and selectivity measurements for receivers, components, or subsystem characterization. To keep pace with...

Application Note 2000-12-08

Measuring Complex Burst Signals with Time-Gated Spectrum Analysis (PN 8590-9) 
This Product Note describes how 8590 C/E-series Spectrum Analyzers with Option 105, Time-Gated Spectrum Analysis, can help make measurements of pulsed signals such as Time-Division Multiple-Access (TDMA) easy.

Application Note 2000-07-01

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Measuring EDGE Signals - New & Modified Techniques and Measurement Requirements 

Application Note 2000-10-01

Measuring Power on the EDGE 
New measurement technique allows designers to make EDGE power measurements without trading off accuracy for measurement speed has been published in CommsDesign. By Dave Dunne, April 2004.

Application Note 2005-10-15

 
Measuring Third-Order Intermodulation, N dB Bandwidth, and Percent AM with Built-In Functions (PN... 
This Product Note explains how to use three of the advanced functions found in all 8590 C/E/L-series Spectrum Analyzers. The three functions are: Contents Third-Order Intermodulation N dB Bandwidth Percent AM

Application Note 2000-07-01

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MIMO Channel Modeling and Emulation Test Challenges Application Note 

Application Note 2010-01-22

MIMO in LTE Operation and Measurement-Excerpts on LTE Test 
Focuses on MIMO radio operation and implementation as it applies to Long Term Evolution (LTE). MIMO (spatial multiplexing) is one of several multiple antenna techniques being implemented in LTE.

Application Note 2009-10-06

MIMO Manufacturing Solution Application Note 
Compares two of the most popular MIMO manufacturing test methodologies, including examples to illustrate the relative merits.

Application Note 2007-07-10

MIMO Performance and Condition Number in LTE Test 
Topics include basic concepts of MIMO, how antenna and channel correlation affects system performance, recommendations for the best measurement tools to use when developing LTE products and systems.

Application Note 2009-10-06

Mobile Communications Device Testing (AN 1310) 
Pulsed battery drain currents, regulated charge currents, and remote DUT fixtures, dictate the need for specialized power sourcing, loading, and measurement capabilities for testing mobile communications devices.

Application Note 2007-01-16

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Multi-Coded Waveform Quality and Code Domain Measurements for cdma2000 
Waveform quality is the basic measure of the performance of a CDMA system transmitter. The success of a CDMA system lies in its efficient use of power, and the waveform quality measurement gives the percent of power that correlates to the ideal code.

Application Note 2001-02-14

Multi-mode Handset Manufacturing Challenges and Solutions  
This application note explains the characteristics that make multi-mode user equipment difficult to test, and provides solutions to streamline UE testing while ensuring conformance to industry standards.

Application Note 2005-11-16

New Generation Analyzer Offers Exceptional and Powerful Analysis Functions for RF...(PN E4991A-1) 
This Product Note describes the key technology of RF impedance measurement, today's RF component evaluation methodologies and advanced features of the E4991A product.

Application Note 2001-05-24

Operational Verification Using Agilent Personnel and the 8960 Test Process and Software 
An on-site delivered inspection and test process for preparing the 8960 test set for system integration.

Application Note 1999-11-01

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Optimizing Your GSM Network 
This application note is a guide to understanding the air interface quality parameters of GSM (global system for mobile communications) networks and their relationship to downlink speech quality.

Application Note 2002-08-27

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Optimizing Your TDMA Network 
In this application note you will find methods that can be used to easily identify interfering base stations by relying on a measurement receiver to decode the DVCC of IS-136 TDMA channels.

Application Note 2002-08-27

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Optimizing your TDMA Network Today and Tomorrow: Interference Identification for IS-136 TDMA... 
This Application Note provides an overview of how drive-test tools can help optimize your TDMA-based cellular and PCS networks. These tools allow you to turn-up networks faster, reduce optimization time, and improve network quality of service.

Application Note 2000-05-04

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Optimum Power Measurements using Agilent Technologies Base Station Test Sets (PN 8935/8921-1) 
This Product Note includes the following: Description of the power measurement method Availability of the power measurement method on the Agilent E6380A and the Agilent 8921A Option 600. How each power measurement method is implemented on the E6380A and the 8921A Option 600. When each power...

Application Note 2000-08-01

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Oscilloscope Considerations for Multilane MIPI M-PHY Transmitter Validation 
To help improve your electrical validation, there are a few considerations in choosing the oscilloscope to validate your multilane M-PHY designs.

Application Note 2012-04-09

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P-Series Power Meter Sensor LTE Measurement Application 
This article covers the technical overview and features, benefits and specifications of the P-Series power meters and sensors for LTE-TDD measurement applications.

Application Note 2009-05-12

PDC and NADC Transmitter Measurement for Base Transceiver Stations and Mobile Stations (AN 1324) 
This Application Note describes the key RF parametric measurements necessary to characterize Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) and North American Digital Cellular (NAD) transmitters in both Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and Mobile Stations (MS).

Application Note 2000-02-01

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Performing cdma2000 Measurements Today (AN 1325) 
cdma2000 is the 3GPP2 standard for 3G technology derived from cdmaOne. Although the standard has not yet been defined, R&D component and system engineers need to test their cdma 2000 designs today. This Application Note is a guide to cdma2000 testing based on established cdmaOne measurements...

Application Note 2000-05-22

Performing W-CDMA Tx Dynamic Power Measurements Using the 8960  
This paper illustrates how to use the Tx dynamic power measurement to measure W-CDMA UE power sequences.

Application Note 2005-06-15

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