System and method for load distribution between base station sectors
AssigneeCelletra Ltd.
InventorsJoseph Shapira, Shmuel Miller
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Abstract
A base station for a cellular telecommunications network is arranged to support a plurality of angular sectors. Each sector has a single dual column antenna, or two single column antennas, and each column is dual polarized such that each element in each column has a correspondingly polarized element in the other column. Thus the two pairs of correspondingly polarized elements form a phased array pair which is steerable together to form a narrow compound sector beam and steerable apart to form a wide compound sector beam.
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A base station for a cellular telecommunications network, said base station being arranged to support a plurality of angular sectors, each sector having two antenna columns, each column of a respective sector having elements of two polarizations, such that each polarization in each column forms a pair with a corresponding polarization in the other column, thereby to provide a phased array pair which is steerable together to form a narrow compound sector beam and steerable apart to form a wide compound sector beam.
A base station for a cellular telephone network, the base station being modified to support a plurality of angular sectors, each sector having two antenna columns, each column being dual polarized such that each element in each column has a correspondingly polarized element in the other column, such that said correspondingly polarized elements form a phased array pair which is steerable together to form a narrow beam and steerable apart to form a wide beam.
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