发明授权
- 专利标题: Multiple beam antenna
- 专利标题(中): 多波束天线
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申请号: US09394835申请日: 1999-09-13
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公开(公告)号: US06480524B1公开(公告)日: 2002-11-12
- 发明人: Martin Stevens Smith , Mark Newton , James E Dalley
- 申请人: Martin Stevens Smith , Mark Newton , James E Dalley
- 主分类号: H04L2726
- IPC分类号: H04L2726
摘要:
Sectorisation has been used in cellular communications networks in order to increase capacity without the need for obtaining new cell sites. However, previously, the increase in the number of main antenna beams provided by a base station transceiver has not produced a commensurate increase in capacity. For example, a hex sectored tricellular network is found to provide an increase in capacity by a factor of only 1.6 over a tri sectored tricellular network despite the fact that twice as many antenna beams are provided. A multiple beam antenna arrangement is described where the increase in capacity is commensurate with the increase in the number of antenna beams provided. In one example, a nine sectored tricellular CMDA network is described which comprises a multiple beam antenna arrangement with six antenna elements each provided as columns. The antenna beams may be orthogonal and a 6×6 Butler matrix beamformer is used which is advantageously loss less. The beamformers may be arranged back to back to allow sharing of power amplifiers to reduce costs and complexity and the number of cables required is reduced by the particular arrangement of beamformer used.
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