  The performance and functionalities of a commercial fifth generation base
station are evaluated inside the reverberation chamber at the mmWave frequency
range. The base station capability to operates in different propagation
environment conditions reproduced by the reverberation chamber is investigated.
Throughput, modulation code scheme and beamforming are analyzed for different
real life scenarios both in uplink and downlink. Experimental results inform
network operators in their evaluation of the base station operation: i) in many
scenarios within a laboratory; ii) in the assessment of whether expected
benefit justifies the additional costs in an operating actual network.
