Sensitivity of information capacity of land mobile cellular system to the base station antenna height at higher microwave frequencies

Author

Anang, Kwashie A. ; Rapajic, Predrag B. ; Eneh, Titus I. ; Oletu, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Wireless & Mobile Commun. Eng., Univ. of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, UK

Volume

3

fYear

2011

fDate

11-13 March 2011

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

172

Abstract

In this paper, mathematical analysis, supported by simulations is used to study the impact of base station antenna height on the performance of land mobile cellular network. The performance is evaluated in terms of the uplink information capacity of the cellular wireless network, when both the first six co-channel interfering cells (first tier) and those beyond it are considered to be dominant. It is shown that at microwave frequencies beyond 2 GHZ as the antenna height increases the area spectrum efficiency of the land mobile cellular network decreases.

Keywords

cellular radio; cochannel interference; mathematical analysis; microwave antennas; base station antenna; cellular wireless network; cochannel interfering cells; frequency 2 GHz; information capacity sensitivity; land mobile cellular system; mathematical analysis; Mathematical model; Microwave frequencies; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Propagation losses; Wireless communication; Land mobile radio cellular system; antenna; breaking- point distance; path loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Research and Development (ICCRD), 2011 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-839-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCRD.2011.5764271

Filename

5764271