Abstract:
It is presented a signal combiner for combining transmission signals to foe supplied to four antennas devices, wherein two of the antenna devices are polarised in a first orientation and two of the antenna devices are polarised in a second orientation essentially orthogonal to the first orientation. The signal combiner comprises: four input connections arranged to receive the transmission signals; four output connections arranged to drive a respective one of the four of antenna devices using respective output signals. The signal combiner is arranged to combine transmission signals supplied on each input connection to all of the four output connections using beam forming and phase adjustment, such that, in use, each supplied transmission signal generates a central beam polarised in the first orientation and a side beam polarised in the second orientation, It is also presented a corresponding method, computer program and computer program product.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a node (10) in a wireless communication system, the node (10) comprising an antenna array with at least first (11a) and second antenna elements (11b). First (12a-16a) and a second radio chains (12b-16b) connect the antenna elements (11a, 11b) to a base band (17). Oscillators (16a, 16b) feed a signal with a unique frequency band (f1, f2) to the splitter (14a, 14b) in the same radio chain. The splitters (14a, 14b) divides the signals into at least two signal parts and feed each part to the multiplexers (13a, 13b). Each multiplexer (13a, 13b) in the node (10) receives signal parts from each splitter (14a, 14b) in the node. The splitters (14a, 14b) weight the division of the signal into the signal parts in dependence of the frequency bands, such that a certain beam width is maintained in all frequency bands. Accordingly, the node provides the same coverage area over different fragmented bands in a reconfigurable antenna.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a repeater arrangement (10, 20, 30) for amplifying a communication link between a base station (1) and user equipment (2), wherein the communication link comprises an uplink and a downlink utilizing frequencies within a coherence bandwidth. The repeater arrangement (10, 20, 30) comprises: a first antenna (11) for communication with the base station (1); a second antenna (12) for communication with the user equipment (2); an amplifying device (13, 23, 33) operatively connected to the first antenna (11) and to the second antenna (12) for conveying and amplifying communication signals between the first antenna (11) and the second antenna (12), the amplifying device (13, 23, 33) comprising a first signal path for the uplink and a second signal path for the downlink, the first and second signal paths having equal electrical length, in order to affect said communication signal identically in both uplink and downlink, providing same phase and amplitude characteristics to said communication signal. The invention also encompasses amplifying device for use in such repeater arrangement.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a wireless communication node (20A) connected to an antenna part (10A) with a plurality of antenna elements (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A) and antenna ports (11A 1 , 11A 2 ,11A 3 , 11A 4 ) over feeder ports (21A 1 , 21A 2 , 21A 3 , 21A 4 ). It comprises signal analyzing means (21A) adapted to analyze a signal received from a mobile station, and to, for each pair of antenna elements (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A), calculate the respective phase difference or phase angle between the signals from the elements of the pair, phase progression function handling means (26A) for calculating a phase progression function over the antenna ports, connection combination handling means (24A) adapted to find all possible combinations of connections between the antenna ports and the feeder ports and the corresponding phase angles or phase differences. It further comprises ordering means (25A) adapted to order said phase angles/phase differences, and fitting and error detecting means adapted (27A) to fit the ordered phase angles/differences to the phase progression function to find the errors between the ordered, calculated phase differences or phase angles corresponding to each connection combination and the phase progression function and to identify the connection combination for which the error of the fit is lowest.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a transmitter chain (200, 200') for a controlling node (110) of a cell (105) in a cellular communications system (100), which comprises an antenna (225) with a first (230) and a second (235) radiation element of a first and a second polarization, respectively. The transmitter chain (200, 200') also comprises a first (215) and a second (220) power amplifier, and additionally comprises a splitter (210) for splitting an incoming signal to the first (215) and the second (220) power amplifier. The first power amplifier (215) is connected to the radiation element (230) of the first polarization, and the second power amplifier (220) is connected to the radiation element (235) of the second polarization. Suitably, the first and second polarizations are orthogonal to each other, and are vertical and horizontal polarizations, or right and left circular polarizations.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a solution for efficient handling of radio resources in communication devices in a wireless communication network. In the solution a subset of available antennas to be used is chosen using a method for determining a singular valued metric from a sub matrix related to a full channel matrix. Sub-channel matrices are chosen by deducing the metric and comparing to other sub-matrices. Preferably the best sub-channel matrix is used to determine a suitable full channel matrix to use in communication and this full channel matrix is communicated to each involved communication device.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a dual polarized array antenna (1, 31) comprising at least two dual polarized antenna elements (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40) being arranged for radiating electromagnetic 5 energy having a first polarization, constituting a first antenna radiation pattern, via a connection to a first antenna port (28), and electromagnetic energy having a second polarization, constituting a second antenna radiation pattern, via a connection to a second antenna port (29), the second polarization being orthogonal to the first polarization, the first antenna radiation pattern and second antenna radiation pattern each having a main beam and a number of side-lobes with nulls. The array antenna (1, 31) comprises at least one further dual polarized antenna element (10, 38) arranged for radiating electromagnetic energy having two mutually orthogonal polarizations, constituting further antenna radiation patterns, via respective connections to the first antenna port (28) and the second antenna port (29), where the polarization of said at least one further dual polarized antenna element (10, 38) that is associated with the first antenna port (28) deviates from the first polarization such that said at least one null of the first antenna pattern is at least partly filled
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a radio network node (12) for scheduling a radio resource within a radio communications network (1). The radio network node (12) comprises at least two antenna ports (501,502) over which communication is performed using a respective power amplifier (503,504) over each antenna port (501,502) out of the at least two antenna ports (501,502). The radio network node (12) determines a utilization factor of power of each power amplifier (503,504) when a first user equipment (101) is assigned to the radio resource. The radio network node further determines a utilization factor of power of each power amplifier (503,504) when a second user equipment (102) is assigned to the radio resource. The radio network node (12) then schedules the first user equipment (101) or the second user equipment (102) to the radio resource based on the determined utilization factors.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a node (1) in a wireless communication system, the node (1) comprising at least one antenna (2) which comprises an even number (A) of antenna ports (3, 4, 5, 6), at least four, where each antenna port (3, 4, 5, 6) is associated with a corresponding polarization (P1, P2), beam-width and phase center. The antenna ports (3, 4, 5, 6) are connected to a reconfiguration network (7) which is arranged for pair-wise linear combination of antenna ports (3, 4, 5, 6) of mutually orthogonal polarizations to a number (B) of virtual antenna ports (8, 9), which number (B) is equal to half the number (A) of antenna ports (3, 4, 5, 6). The virtual antenna ports (8, 9) correspond to virtual antennas and are connected to corresponding radio branches (10, 11). The present invention also relates to a corresponding method.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a node (1) in a wireless communication system, the node (1) comprising at least one antenna (2) which is arranged to cover a first sector (3) in a first direction (4) and comprises a number (A) of antenna ports (5, 6, 7, 8), which number (A) is at least four. The antenna ports (5, 6, 7, 8) are connected to a transformation matrix (9) which is arranged for transforming the antenna ports (5, 6, 7, 8) to at least a first set (S1) of virtual antenna ports (10, 11) and a second set (S2) of virtual antenna ports (12, 13), each set (S1, S2) comprising a number (B) of virtual antenna ports (10, 11; 12, 13). The number (B) of virtual antenna ports (10, 11; 12, 13) is less than or equal to half the number (A) of antenna ports (5, 6, 7, 8), but not falling below two. The sets (S1, S2) of virtual antenna ports (10, 11; 12, 13) correspond to virtual antennas which are arranged to cover at least a second sector (14) and a third sector (15) in a corresponding second direction (16) and third direction (17). The present invention also relates to a corresponding method.