A dynamic basestation antenna with reconfigurable azimuth beamwidth
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- You, Y.; Rigelsford, J. M.; Ford, K. L.; O'Farrell, T.
- Source
- The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on. :1889-1892 Apr, 2014
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Europe
Antennas
Decision support systems
Conferences
- Language
- ISSN
- 2164-3342
This paper presents a novel basestation antenna system capable of dynamically reconfiguring its azimuth beamwidth. Simulation and theoretical results show that by switching the PIN diodes' states, the azimuth beamwidth can be reconfigured from narrow (60º) to wide angle (90º). Such a design is suitable for trading cell average and cell edge throughput requirements in real time to benefit the QOS of edge users.