Keywords: LTE-Advanced, Test platform, Software defined radio, SynchronizationWith the rapid growth of mobile communication terminals, mobile data traffic also shows a steeply increasing trend. Cisco forecast, up to 2018, the number of global mobile terminals will be 1.4 times of the world's population; Global mobile data traffic will be 11 times in 2013, and the compound annual growth rate is 61% [1]. In addition to the rapid growth of terminals and data traffic, there will be a dramatic expansion in the scenarios, application field, and business types of mobile communication. In the future, mobile communication will have characteristics like large capacity, high speed, density and mobility as well as low delay. To achieve the mobile communication with above characteristics, mobile communication technology should make further improvements basing on the fourth generation mobile communication (4G), so that it can meet the demand of the fifth generation mobile communication (5G).To meet the need of future mobile communications, it is a dominant approach to adopt advanced wireless technology and new networks architecture. Modeling analysis, simulation and the test of platform are main ways to design, test and verify the advanced mobile communication technologies. In terms of simulation, the Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Southeast University respectively constructed a system-level simulation platform for the LTE via using C++ and MATLAB [2][3]. The Vienna University of Technology constructed the link-level and system-level simulation platform conforming to LTE-Advanced specification [4][5]. The construction of the simulation platform provides an approach for the research on LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies.However, adopting merely simulation cannot meet the needs of designing and testing for future mobile communication technologies. Compared with simulation, the test platform with a combination of hardware and software has advantages of real channel environment and interference, rapid operating speed and high real-time. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a real-time test platform combining hardware and software so as to meet the needs of future mobile communication technologies.