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Experimental Evaluation of an Adaptive Antenna for a TDMA Mobile Telephony System

Jonas Strandell , Mattias Wennström , Anders Rydberg and Tommy Öberg

PIMRC' 97 , Helsinki, September 1-4 1997 ,© 1997 IEEE


Outline:
Using adaptive antennas in telecommunication has several benefits. The coverage can be extended by using an array of antennas instead of a single base station antenna. Alternatively can the transmitted power be reduced. The capacity and quality can be improved by suppressing interfering signal sources and this capacity improvement is obtained by reducing the reuse factor (i.e. the distance between two cells using the same frequency set).
We have designed and built an adaptive antenna test bed for the DCS-1800 system.

Abstract:
Measurements of an SMI adaptive DCS-1800 base station antenna, used in uplink only, are presented and analysed. Both laboratory measurements and outdoor field trials have been performed. The antenna is improving the C/I ratio more than 30 dB. Calculations using measured data, assuming downlink performance equal to that of the uplink, show a spectral efficiency gain of 6 over present base station systems.

Related publications:
Design and Evaluation of a Fully Adaptive Antenna for Telecommunication Systems,
Antenn 97 conference,  Abstract

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