Device testing optimization for 5g or other next generation network

Abstract

Mobile device testing efficiencies can be increased by a testing interface designed to elicit mobile device characteristics from a mobile device. A mapping table can be used to request specific characteristic data from a mobile device. Once received by a base station device, the base station device can utilize the characteristic data to optimize performance of the base station device and/or the mobile device. The requested characteristics can comprise temperature data, beamforming data, array data, and/or other data that is relative to the mobile device and its performance.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 facilitating, by network equipment comprising a processor, sending, to a user equipment, a beam status command to elicit angle data representative of an angle range of the beam to facilitate performance, based on the angle range of the beam, of test measurements of the user equipment by the network equipment;   facilitating, by the network equipment, sending, to the user equipment, an antenna status command to elicit an antenna operation status representative of a number of antennas of embedded antenna array modules of the user equipment that are inactive during a defined period; and   reducing, based on the number of antennas that are inactive during the defined period, a test time of the performance of the test measurements to obtain a non-zero test time for the performance of the test measurements.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 facilitating, by the network equipment, sending, to the user equipment, request data representative of a request for a status associated with the user equipment; and   in response to sending the request data, facilitating, by the network equipment, receiving temperature range data representing temperature values that the user equipment has detected over a defined period of time and status data representative of a temperature threshold value associated with a temperature threshold of the user equipment.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 based on the temperature range data and the status data,
 modifying, by the network equipment, a parameter of the network equipment to facilitate a modification of the user equipment, 
 determining, by the network equipment, an operating temperature range that is applicable to the user equipment, and 
 based on a radio access technology being utilized to communicate with the user equipment, modifying, by the network equipment, a capability data structure representative of capabilities associated with the user equipment, wherein modifying the capability data structure comprises including a field in the capability data structure representing a service that is not currently enabled for the user equipment 
   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the request data comprises a command representative of the request for the status data that is associated with a temperature status of the user equipment. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the command further comprises a threshold request representative of the request, and wherein the request is for the temperature threshold value associated with the temperature threshold of the user equipment. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 facilitating, by the network equipment, sending, to the user equipment, request data representative of a request for a status associated with the user equipment, wherein the request data comprises a command representative of a request for status data associated with the beam.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the beam is a wide beam. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the beam is a narrow beam. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein the command is a first command, wherein the request data comprises a second command representative of the request for the status data associated with a locking of the beam, and wherein the locking of the beam resulted in a receiver of the user equipment being mapped to a transmitter of the network equipment to facilitate the performance of the test measurements. 
     
     
         10 . A system, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 sending a first command to a user equipment of a network to obtain angle data representative of an angle range of a beam that has been received by the user equipment to facilitate, based on the angle range, testing of the user equipment by network equipment of the network; 
 sending a second command to the user equipment to obtain an antenna operation status representative of a number of antennas of an antenna array of the user equipment that are inactive during a defined period; and 
 reducing, based on the number of antennas that are inactive during the defined period, a test duration of the testing to obtain a non-zero test duration for the testing. 
   
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 in response to transmitting command data representative of a prompt for a status associated with the user equipment, receiving status data representative of a beam status of the user equipment; and   based on the beam status of the user equipment, modifying an optimization parameter of the network equipment to facilitate an optimization of the user equipment.   
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein modifying the optimization parameter comprises modifying the test duration. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the optimization parameter is associated with a beam pattern of the beam. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the prompt comprises an antenna-based prompt for the status associated with an antenna array of the user equipment. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 14 , wherein the status data comprises an indication representative of an enabled antenna of the antenna array of the user equipment. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the beam status represents whether the beam is locked, and wherein the beam being locked indicates that a receiver of the user equipment is locked to a transmitter of the network equipment to facilitate performance of measurements. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the number of antennas is a first number, and wherein the status data comprises number data representative of a second number representing an amount of antennas that are included in the antenna array. 
     
     
         18 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a mobile device comprising a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 receiving a beam status command from base station equipment that requests angle data representative of an angle range of a beam that has been received by the mobile device to facilitate performance of test measurements of the mobile device by the base station equipment; and   in response to receiving an antenna status command from the base station equipment that requests an antenna operation status representative of a number of antennas of an antenna array of the mobile device that are inactive during a defined period, sending the antenna operation status representative of the number of antennas that are inactive during the defined period to the base station equipment to facilitate a reduction, based on the number of antennas that are inactive during the defined period, of a duration of the test measurements to obtain a non-zero duration for the test measurements.   
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise:
 in response to sending status data representative of the angle range of the beam to the base station equipment, receiving an optimization parameter from the base station equipment, wherein the optimization parameter is associated with a beam pattern associated with the mobile device.   
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 19 , wherein the status data comprises an indication of a beam lock associated with one of a wide beam or a narrow beam.