Comparison of Remote Electrical and Mechanical Antenna Downtilt Performance for 3GPP LTE

Author

Yilmaz, Osman N C ; Hämäläinen, Seppo ; Hämäläinen, Jyri

Author_Institution

Res. Technol. & Platforms, Nokia Siemens Networks, Espoo, Finland

fYear

2009

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate and compare impacts of mechanical and electrical downtilt angles of antenna systems to the downlink performance of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Cell coverage and capacity in different macro-cellular network scenarios for various combinations of antenna parameter configurations have been studied in terms of signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) performance. Simulation studies are performed for uniform UE distribution and full-buffer traffic by using LTE snap-shot simulator modeling electrical and mechanical antenna tilt in details and propagation in three dimensions.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobile antennas; telecommunication traffic; 3GPP LTE networks; LTE snap-shot simulator; Long Term Evolution networks; antenna parameter configurations; downlink performance; full-buffer traffic; macrocellular network; remote electrical antenna downtilt performance; remote mechanical antenna downtilt performance; signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio; Adaptive arrays; Antennas and propagation; Costs; Delay; Downlink; Interference; Long Term Evolution; Signal to noise ratio; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2009-Fall), 2009 IEEE 70th

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2514-3

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2009.5379074

Filename

5379074