5G Base Station Prototyping: Architectures Overview

The implementation of 5G technologies is associated with a number of difficulties, including the cost of upgrading the infrastructure of mobile operators. Therefore the introduction of different solutions for the physical and data link layer for 5G can be based on existing LTE and LTE Advanced Pro networks. The article contains an analysis of the new requirements of 3GPP 38 series (Release 15) for the physical layer implementation in order to determine the possibility of development of a fifth-generation mobile communication base station based on fast prototyping tools. An analytical evaluation of the parameters and configuration of the necessary equipment was carried out in terms of the implementation of 5G BS architectures 1-C, 1-H, 1-O, 2-O. The performance of type 1-C BS with 5G physical layer parameters based on National Instruments testbed was demonstrated.