This paper introduces a base station antenna system as a future cellular technology. The base station antenna system is the key to achieving high-speed data transmission. It is particularly important to improve the frequency reuse factor as one of the roles of a base station. Furthermore, in order to solve the interference problem due to the same frequency being used by the macro cell and the s...

Cellular standards like the third generation partnership program (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE), ultra-mobile broadband (UMB), high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX) support multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication technology. MIMO uses multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver along with advanced digital signal processing to improve lin...

The motivation of the present study is to investigate the possibility of using two independently directed antenna beams in a mobile base station to provide diversity gain and reduce fading problems in a microcellular environment. In this paper, the signal correlation of the individual antenna beams is studied, and it is shown that correlation depends on beamwidth, separation angle of the antenn...

From very recent studies, the area spectral efficiency (ASE) performance of downlink (DL) cellular networks will continuously decrease and finally to zero with the network densification in a fully loaded ultra-dense network (UDN) when the absolute height difference between a base station (BS) antenna and a user equipment (UE) antenna is larger than zero, which is referred as the ASE Crash. We r...

Several diversity techniques employing multiple antennas in the base station have been developed for mobile communication systems. However, the performance of diversity methods strongly depends on the correlation between antenna elements. When multiple co-polarized antennas are used in base station, the practical factor limiting the number of diversity branches is the required antenna separatio...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the base station site locations and antenna orientations on UMTS radio network performance under different traffic distributions, and to find an optimum deployment strategy from 3-sectored to 6-sectored site solutions. A radio network planning tool has been used to verify the radio network system performance of different network scenarios. The res...

A base station antenna is an RF component capable of critically affecting performance of a cellular system. Down tilting base station antennas is used in mobile communication to prevent co-channel interference. In this paper, we introduce antenna configuration for electrical downtilt. Here a genetically optimized technique is employed. Printed circuit dipoles are employed as radiation elements.

In this paper, a vector channel model is proposed and some statistical properties of the asymptotic efficiency of the decorrelating detector with base-station antenna arrays are investigated. It is shown that we can get gain over the conventional decorrelator by employing antenna arrays and the gain increases as the number of antennas increases and the angle dispersion decreases. It is also sho...

In this paper the impact of the base station antenna horizontal beamwidth on radio network capacity in WCDMA cellular networks in the downlink direction is studied. Influence of coverage overlapping and radio propagation environment together with antenna beamwidth are also studied. A radio network planning tool is used to simulate WCDMA macro cellular network performance in urban and suburban a...

The suitable use of an antenna array at the base station of a communication system results in improved Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR). In this paper, Linear Array (LA), Circular Array (CA) and Concentric Circular Antenna Array (CCAA) are used at the base station of a direct sequence code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. To suppress multiple access interference (MAI), the proposed sc...