5G Beam Management in MATLAB

Overview

In this webinar, we introduce 5G New Radio (NR) beam management procedures at the physical layer.  Operation at millimeter-wave frequencies require beam management procedures for initial access in 5G NR. We will cover the stages of beam sweeping, beam measurement, beam determination and beam reporting for such a system.  We will also discuss differences in these procedures for Standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) modes.

Highlights

Using reference designs from 5G and Phased Array System Toolboxes, we highlight

• Initial access procedures including transmit/receive point (TRP) beam sweeping
• UE-end beam sweeping to establish a beam pair link
• Using synchronization signal blocks (SSB), for both azimuth and elevation plane sweeps
• Transmit-end beam refinement using channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) 

About the Presenter

Amit Kansal joined MathWorks in 1998. He now serves as a development manager, leading the team that produces products like Communications Toolbox.  Over the past decade, he has helped initiate and develop LTE, WLAN and 5G toolboxes. Prior to joining MathWorks, Amit worked as an associate RF engineer at Nextel (now Sprint). He holds an M.S.E.E. from State University of New York, Buffalo, and a B.Tech. (EE) from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India.