With the recent standardisation by 3GPP and CTIA of Over-the-Air testing of 3G/4G mobile User Equipment, a logical development in OTA testing is concentrating on 5G mobile. However, the advent of autonomous and/or cooperative driving and the importance of V2X for traffic safety and optimised traffic flow, open up completely new themes for OTA testing.

Complex, and hazardous, situations cannot reproducibly be enacted in real life, which calls for virtual environments for testing, like virtual electro-magnetic environments for mobile communications and virtual drive tests for automotive. In these virtual environments, sensor data beyond RF communications have to be included too, e.g., radar and visual clues. Shared with 5G is the problem posed by the introduction of integrated radio-heads, i.e., separating antennas from RF equipment becomes impossible, especially at millimetre-wave frequencies. Then, access to the internal functions of the equipment can only be gained Over-the-Air. This workshop presents visions and initiatives, from academia, research institutes, and industry throughout Europe on these topics.