CoE-WWT 5G Test Lab
Be at the forefront of communication technology and AI.
State-of-the-art 5G Test Lab is a facility located within ARTgarage Bengaluru to test and demonstrate innovations. Industry partners make their technologies available through this facility.
The lab is accessible to the innovation community comprising Startups, Academia and Industry – currently at nominal cost.
Equipment Available
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Integrated 5G NR Indoor / Outdoor RAN operating in n78 (3.3-3.8 GHz) band. Supports 4x4 SU MIMO and covers area of ~200 mts radius providing > 1Gbps throughput, supporting 128 active users. Multiple of these radios are deployed as part of Karnataka 5G Test Lab to create multi-cell and handover scenarios.
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5G directional (90, 120 degrees) sector antennas are used with Resonous RANs to ensure complete indoor and outdoor network coverage of the Private 5G Test Network.
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Intel Xeon gold 6544Y 3.6GHz 16 core servers house the 5G Core (commercial and open source) and 5G CU+DU for the Karnataka 5G Test Lab.
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Bharat 5G Lab comprises of Signaltron’s Sahyadri STGNB2215 Integrated 5G Base Station operating in FR1 n78 Band, providing coverage of 50 mts radius. Supports Data Rate (DL+UL) ≥ (200+12) Mbps and 30 active users.
Independent x86 servers host 5G core and Edge Compute (MEC)
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Based on Qualcomm chipset, these modules support in 5G enabling of UEs – UGVs, drones, laptops and other devices.
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Bullet Camera
Dome Camera
XR / VR Headset
IoT Gateway
CPE
Drones – Surveillance / Cargo / Agriculture
Test Mobile Phones
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Resources Available
Bharat 5G Use Case Lab
One of the 100 Bharat 5G Labs (DoT’s initiative) is located in our facility. This is a Private 5G Network with a wide range of computation support and accessories for building and testing 5G based use cases around camera and analytics, XR/VR, IoT devices and drone systems.
Karnataka 5G Test Lab
A parallel Private 5G Network consisting of combination of commercial and open source solutions on the 5G infrastructure side. This is ideal setup for researchers and innovators focusing on 5G technology at the infrastructure side.
Private 5G Coverage at ARTgarage
Coverage of the test Private 5G network extends to the whole of ARTgarage indoor and outdoor area and supports testing of mobility / handover scenarios.
Indoor & Outdoor Sites
Indoor Area: 75,000 SQ FT
Outdoor Area: 5 Acres
Cutting-edge Lab Equipment
A look at the tools powering Karnataka's 5G research and innovation ecosystem, from base stations and software-defined radios to drones, edge compute servers, and XR headsets. Built to test, validate, and accelerate real-world 5G use cases.
Research Support & 6G
5G/ 6G Positioning Services
• NR UEs position estimated by gNodeB using round trip time
• UE Positioning to help RAN optimize its antenna and beam configuration to improve QoS and user experience
• Millimeter wave beamforming transceiver kits in use with 5G RAN
Integration of 5G with TSN
QoS analysis and evaluation of performance robustness in complex, distributed applications like autonomous robotics
Near real-time RIC (nRT-RIC) xApps
For performance monitoring of applications
Sensing Data Architecture prototype
Data collection, storage, processing using sensors and near real-time RIC
6G Standards Activity
• Standards proposals in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs, white paper and proposals to TSDSI and B6G alliance
• Proposal on 6G sensing data architecture, data monetization and use cases with sensing data architecture such as FRMCS and NTN
Access the 5G Test Lab
If you would like to utilize the 5G Lab facility, upload the duly completed Lab User Agreement along with your details in the form below.