High capacity femtocells with directional antennas

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tsai, Ang Hsun ^a   Huang, Jane Hwa ^b   Wang, Li Chun ^a   Hwang, Ruey Bing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacity; E plane horns based reconfigurable antenna; Femtocell; Link reliability; Two tier interference

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; HIGH CAPACITY; HOME BASE; IEEE 802.16; INDOOR COVERAGE; LINK RELIABILITY; LOW POWER; MACRO CELLS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; SECTOR ANTENNAS; SIDE LOBES; SYSTEM CAPACITY;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77955038298     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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