An evaluation of adaptive antennas for a UMTS FDD network deployed in a suburban area of Norway: Network simuations and capacity improvements

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2353-2357

  Bråten, Lars Erling ^a   Pettersen, Magne ^a   Spilling, Anders ^a  

^a TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive antennas; Capacity; UMTS FDD

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA; ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; AVERAGE THROUGHPUT; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; CAPACITY; CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT; MAXIMUM NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHASED ARRAYS; RADIO CAPACITY; SECTOR ANTENNAS; SUBURBAN AREAS; SYSTEM SIMULATOR; UMTS FDD; UMTS NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SIMULATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 72149113625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1259139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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