Patent ID: 8521092

Claim:
A wireless transceiver test bed for testing a wireless transceiver unit under test (UUT), comprising: a virtual wireless channel processor; a computer program for the virtual wireless channel processor, the computer program comprising: a computer usable non transitory medium having computer readable program code modules embodied in said medium for emulating a radio frequency (RF) environment; a computer readable first program code module for modeling noise in a wireless environment; a computer readable second program code module for modeling interference in a wireless environment; a computer readable third program code module for modeling the path loss for a wireless signal; a computer readable fourth program code module for modeling the presence of multipath transmission; a computer readable fifth program code module for selecting transmission parameters and physical characteristics of the UUT wherein the physical characteristics include a location, speed, and direction of motion of the UUT, wherein the transmission parameters and physical characteristics of the UUT are contained in a first metadata a computer readable sixth program code module for modeling a virtual spectrum user (VSU) having selectable transmission parameters and selectable physical characteristics, wherein the physical characteristics include a location, speed, and direction of motion of the VSU, wherein the transmission parameters and physical characteristics of the VSU are contained in a second metadata and the transmissions parameters of the VSU include spectrum different than the UUT; a test instrumentation processor, comprising: a first port for receiving test instrumentation signals from the UUT and VSU including first and second metadata; a second port for receiving RF environment emulation information from said virtual wireless channel processor; a computer program for the test instrumentation processor, the computer program comprising: a computer usable non-transitory medium having computer readable program code modules embodied in said medium for evaluating the performance of the UUT and VSU in the emulated RF environment.