Experimental Data for Comparison of Interference Impacts from Synthetic and Real Mobile Phone Signals on COTS Communication Devices

Experimental results from conducted interference susceptibility experiments comparing interference impacts from three broad classes of interference waveforms: 1) synthetic 4G frequency division duplexing (FDD) uplink long term evolution (LTE) signals 2) recordings of real 4G FDD uplink LTE emissions from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and 3) artificial pulse modulated noise (PMN). Two COTS communication systems were used as victim links, an IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi link and a point-to-point (PTP) microwave link. Tests were performed with interference targeting either side of the link (data source or destination).  Methods and results are documented in a forthcoming NIST Technical Note.