Paper Info
Title
Downtilted Base Station Antennas - A Simulation Model Proposal And Impact On Hspa And Lte Performance
Abstract
This paper proposes a low-complexity model for vertical antenna radiation patterns, e. g. for inclusion in system-level simulations. They can be seen as extensions to the horizontal radiation pattern model used in 3GPP simulation scenarios. The model is verified against and compared to predicted and measured data from real networks. The impact on system-level performance is also investigated. It is seen that using the proposed model, simulated geometry distributions and soft handover statistics closely matching those of real networks may be achieved. The analysis also concludes that many real networks have better cell isolation than what is modeled by the 3GPP antenna model. As a consequence, the horizontal radiation pattern model significantly under-estimates the system level performance in such networks. Furthermore, the proposed model is used to assess the LTE and HSPA system-level performance for realistic scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/VETECF.2008.49
68TH IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, FALL 2008
Keywords
Field
DocType
Antennas, radiation patterns, models, base stations, land mobile radio cellular systems, system level performance, LTE, HSPA, WCDMA
Antenna radiation patterns,Mobile radio,Base station antennas,Radiation pattern,Computer science,Soft handover,Computer network,Electronic engineering,Telecommunications link,System level
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1090-3038
39
5.58
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fredrik Gunnarsson125628.92
Martin N. Johansson2426.75
Anders Furuskaer341260.09
Magnus Lundevall411515.99
Arne Simonsson525842.62
Claes Tidestav6498.54
Mats Blomgren7579.02