Predicting multi-element receive & transmit array capacity outdoors with ray tracing

Author

Ling, Jonathan ; Chizhik, Dmitry ; Valenzuela, Reinaldo A.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

392

Abstract

We construct a few canonical cases consisting of diffracting wedges and simple linear arrays, as steps towards predicting capacity for an entire cell, highlighting important propagation mechanisms. We show that a diffracting wedge can collapse capacity of multi-element arrays. If more that one wedge is present, the capacity increases. These effects are demonstrated theoretically and numerically through ray-tracing

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; geometrical theory of diffraction; linear antenna arrays; radiowave propagation; ray tracing; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; UTD; cellular networks; cellular radio networks; diffracting wedges; linear arrays; multi-element receive array capacity; multi-element transmit array capacity; propagation mechanisms; radio propagation channel; ray tracing; through ray-tracing; uniform theory of diffraction; wireless data communication; Antennas and propagation; Cities and towns; Diffraction; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Ray tracing; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Space technology; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.944871

Filename

944871