Method and Apparatus for Testing Mobile Terminals in an OFDM System

A method for testing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) mobile terminals, said method comprising:

• splitting radio resources available in a cell of an OFDM system into contiguous unities in the frequency domain;
• wherein the radio resources of a first one or more of said contiguous unities are allocated to one or more mobile terminals being tested;
• wherein the radio resources of a second one or more of said contiguous unities are allocated to virtual users, said first one or more of said contiguous unities being different from said second one or more of said contiguous unities;
• and
• transmitting test signals to the one or more mobile terminals being tested on the radio resources allocated to the one or more mobile terminals being tested and transmitting test signals to the virtual users on the radio resources allocated to the virtual users to verify performance requirements in an OFDM system for the one or more mobile terminals being tested.