System and method for determining wireless chipset performance

A system for determining wireless chipset performance, comprising:

• a test environment controller that sets a plurality of conditions;
• a performance indicator monitor that measures a performance indicator for uplink traffic sent to a wireless chipset of a wireless device a plurality of times under the plurality of conditions to generate a set of uplink performance indicators and that measures a performance indicator for downlink traffic received from a wireless chipset of a wireless device a plurality of times under the plurality of conditions to generate a set of downlink performance indicators;
• wherein the plurality of conditions comprise:
• a set of center frequency parameters;
• a set of attenuation factor parameters for each one of the set of center frequency parameters;
• a set of channel model parameters for each one of the combinations of attenuation factor parameters and center frequency parameters, wherein the set of channel model parameters comprise at least one ITU channel fading model;
• and,
• a set of modulation coding scheme parameters for each one of the combinations of channel model parameters, attenuation factor parameters, and center frequency parameters;
• and
• determining a performance of the wireless chipset under the plurality of conditions based on the set of uplink performance indicators and the set of downlink performance indicators.

A method of determining wireless chipset performance, comprising:

• providing a base station emulator with a set of center frequency parameters;
• for each one of the set of center frequency parameters, providing a channel emulator with a set of attenuation factor parameters;
• for each one of the combinations of attenuation factor parameters and center frequency parameters, providing the channel emulator with a set of channel model parameters, wherein the set of channel model parameters comprise at least one ITU channel fading model;
• for each one of the combinations of channel model parameters, attenuation factor parameters, and center frequency parameters, providing the base station emulator with a set of uplink modulation coding scheme parameters, generating uplink traffic, sending the uplink traffic from a wireless chipset of a wireless device to the channel emulator, and measuring an uplink performance indicator based on the uplink traffic;
• for each one of the combinations of channel model parameters, attenuation factor parameters, and center frequency parameters, providing the base station emulator with a set of downlink modulation coding scheme parameters, generating downlink traffic, sending the downlink traffic from the channel emulator to the wireless chipset of the wireless device, and measuring a downlink performance indicator based on the downlink traffic;
• for each one of the combinations of channel model parameters, attenuation factor parameters, and center frequency parameters, providing the base station emulator with a set of bidirectional modulation coding scheme parameters, generating bidirectional traffic, exchanging the bidirectional traffic between the channel emulator and the wireless chipset of the wireless device, and measuring a bidirectional performance indicator based on the bidirectional traffic;
• and
• determining a performance of the wireless chipset of the wireless device under the plurality of conditions based on the uplink performance indicator, the downlink performance indicator, and the bidirectional performance indicator.