126 results about "Sector antenna" patented technology

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling a radiation direction of a small sector antenna, used for a small wireless transmission device having limited power and calculation capabilities, capable of operating at a low power consumption with the necessity of simple calculation capabilities or without the necessity of even a few calculation capabilities. The apparatus for controlling a radiation direction of a small sector antenna includes a plurality of capacitance blocks including a plurality of capacitors each having one end commonly connected to corresponding parasitic elements and having a different capacitance. Capacitors having a capacitance corresponding to a radiation direction are selectively connected to corresponding parasitic elements through a plurality of switching units and a controller, thereby simplifying controlling and reducing power consumption for controlling the radiation direction.

A low sidelobe beam forming method and dual-beam antenna schematic are disclosed, which may preferably be used for 3-sector and 6-sector cellular communication system. Complete antenna combines 2-, 3- or -4 columns dual-beam sub-arrays (modules) with improved beam-forming network (BFN). The modules may be used as part of an array, or as an independent 2-beam antenna. By integrating different types of modules to form a complete array, the present invention provides an improved dual-beam antenna with improved azimuth sidelobe suppression in a wide frequency band of operation, with improved coverage of a desired cellular sector and with less interference being created with other cells. Advantageously, a better cell efficiency is realized with up to 95% of the radiated power being directed in a desired cellular sector.

A wireless device is coupled to a multi-sector antenna that includes a plurality of different sectors, any of which can be activated to transmit and receive in a desired direction specific to that sector. Optionally, an omnidirectional antenna is included for initially establishing a wireless connection with another wireless device, such as an access point. A parameter indicative of signal quality, such as throughput or received signal strength indication (RSSI) is determined by polling with each antenna sector to establish a prioritized candidate list. If a receive Trigger becomes active in response to a parameter falling below a threshold level, a new candidate sector is selected from the current list based upon a next-best signal quality. The directionality of the multi-sector antenna provides a substantially higher data rate compared to that of the conventional omnidirectional antenna.

A radio access network having multiple sectors comprises two or more sector transmitters serving respective sectors for transmitting data to mobile stations; a plurality of antennas, each antenna assigned to a respective sector transmitter; and a antenna management processor controlling sector antenna assignments and operative to dynamically reassign a sector antenna associated with a sector transmitter in a first sector to a sector transmitter in a second sector.

The present invention relates to a collision prevention method for a RFID system and a RFID system to minimize the collision of response signals by using sector antennas and controlling the power. The present invention comprises the steps of: separating plural tags in a space by setting up plural number of sector antennas; setting up the output stages of the power of each sector antenna to be increased in plural sequential stages; and reading a tag belonging to the output range by selecting a first sector antenna and transmitting minimum power among the set up stages. The present invention considerably reduce the collision probability of response signals of tags by dividing the tags in a space when a reader reads or writes tag information. The present invention also minimizes the time consumed to read / write tags and improves the communication distance and capacity.

A dual polarized three-sector base station antenna with variable beam tilt in each sector. The invention advantageously provides a variable phase shifter with very small lateral dimensions which significantly reduces the diameter of a three-sector antenna. The feed network is located on both sides of the antenna ground plane, and the combination of the cable, microstrip and airstrip lines further reduces the lateral size of the antenna. Metal rings on the radome and double-bended ground plane are providing antenna with better cross-polarization and port-to-port isolation.

Methods and systems for constructing multi-sector antenna for packet-by-packet transmission. The transmission of each packet can be performed by a different antenna sector. The system can consist of a plurality of various antenna types: flat panel, parabolic dish, slotted, omni, planar, micro-strip, Yagi, beam-forming, adaptive, and electro-mechanical moveable. The direction of transmission is selected responsive to the direction in which the best signal reception was received. Switching logic is coupling the out going transmission signal to selected ones from the plurality of the antenna sectors. The antenna design in this invention is aimed at increasing the gain and minimizing the interfering signals with respect large number of users who are concurrently and continuously tracking and communicating with their access points, and consequently, increasing the bit rate of each transmission and the aggregate capacity of the wireless system.

An antenna device having a feeder electrode that extends linearly on a top surface of a dielectric substrate. A balanced electrode having two balanced transmission electrodes vertical to the extending direction of the feeder electrode and extending in parallel. The two balanced transmission electrodes are connected to the feeder electrode and separated by an interval of ½ of a wavelength of a transmission / reception signal. A radiation electrode having a first electrode connected to the one of the two balanced transmission electrodes and a second electrode connected to the other of the two balanced transmission electrodes and is positioned parallel to the feeder electrode. A waveguide electrode is formed at a position separated from the radiation electrode by a predetermined interval and in parallel to the radiation electrode. A ground electrode is formed at an area of a back surface of the dielectric substrate corresponding to an area including a portion where the feeder electrode is positioned. By connecting the two balanced electrodes to the feeder electrode at an interval of ½ of a wavelength in this manner, this branch portion has a signal branching function and a balun function at the same time.

The invention relates to a polarization array omnidirectional antenna of the PHS's base stations and mainly solves the problems of poor signal and small percentage of coverage of the tri-sector polarization diversity omnidirectional antenna in the PHS's base stations. We arrange the three minus or plus 45 degrees dual-polarization platy directional antennas with three 0 degree / 90 degrees dual-polarization platy directional antennas interlacedly on the baseline of a hexagon to form the hexad-sector twelve-array minus or plus 45 degrees and 0 degree / 90 degrees qua-polarization diversity antenna structure and carry out the threeway power synthesis to the directional antenna with same degree. The terminals of the hexad-sector antenna export four cable wires of +45 degree, -45 degrees, 0 degree and 90 degrees and connect with the base station to realize receiving and sending out the signal with different polarization methods. The antenna has an omnidirectional radiation directional diagram in the horizontal plane. Compared with the common level omnidirectional antenna, the gain of every polarization terminal is more than 12.5dB, the isolation between any two terminals is less than -25dB and it improves the coverage of the omnidirectional base stations greatly and increases the covering distance of the base stations.

The present invention relates generally to the field on antennas and more specifically, to a low profile horizontally polarized sector antenna. The antenna includes a printed circuit board that has a dielectric substrate provided with a pair of first and second opposed faces and at least one dipole element formed on the dielectric substrate. The at least one dipole element has a pair of first and second, oppositely extending, dipole arms. The first dipole arm is formed on the first face of the dielectric substrate and the second dipole arm is formed on the second face thereof. The at least one dipole element has a width W corresponding to the span between the first and second dipole arms. The printed circuit board is also provided with a feed network that is operatively connected to the at least one dipole element. The antenna further includes a pair of conductive boards mounted to the dielectric substrate to stand proud of the second face thereof. The conductive boards are spaced from each other a distance D. The distance D is greater than the width W. The distance D is selected to obtain an E-Plane beamwidth for the antenna ranging from about 90 degrees to about 240 degrees. The antenna also has a ground plane that is operatively connected to the pair of conductive boards.

In a beam forming adaptive control method, a signal of each mobile station is separated from a set of signals received at a sector antenna from multiple mobile stations. The signals are transmitted in a code division multiple access scheme. The direction of arrival and the received power level of each path of the separated signals is calculated for each of the mobile stations. Then, spatial signal power level immediately before the signal is received at the antennas is estimated from the received power levels, based on the respective direction of arrival and sector antenna gain. Finally, the direction of the beam to be transmitted is determined based on the estimated spatial signal power level.

A method of communicating in a cellular network including a multi-sector point to multipoint base station, having a plurality of antennas covering primarily non-overlapping zones. The method includes allocating bandwidth to a subscriber station in each of the zones, which bandwidth is on a single channel, such that if the subscribers were adjacent each other their transmissions on the allocated bandwidth would interfere with each other, transmitting signals from the subscribers to the base station through the antennas of the respective zones in which they are located, on the allocated bandwidth and processing the signals from each of the subscribers so as to cancel interference from others of the subscribers in interpreting the signals by the base station.

The present invention provides a communication node associated with a wireless network to communicate with a mobile device over a wireless medium across a plurality of mobile communication regions. The communication node comprises an antenna arrangement including a first, a second and a third antenna, wherein the first antenna is primarily associated with a first service coverage area of a first mobile communication region of the plurality of mobile communication regions, the second antenna is primarily associated with a second service coverage area of the first mobile communication region, and the third antenna is primarily associated with a third service coverage area of the first mobile communication region for combining diversity from the first, second and third antennas to fully communicate information to and from at least one of the first, second and third service coverage areas and to partially communicate information to and from at least two of the first, second and third service coverage areas. In one embodiment, a method may adapt a first, a second and a third antenna in a multi-sector antenna arrangement of a base station across cells by combining diversity from the first, second, and third antennas. Such antenna arrangement may reduce installation and alignment costs for a multi-sector antenna while increasing a receive sensitivity and decreasing a transmit power requirement because base station antennas are not deployed in diversity pairs rather are equally distributed.

A multiple sector cell-site antenna includes a first antenna oriented to serve a first sector, the first antenna electrically connected to a first transceiver group; a second antenna oriented to serve a second sector adjacent to the first sector, the second antenna electrically connected to the first transceiver group; and a single enclosure covering both the first antenna and the second antenna. By providing at least two multiple sector cell-site antennas in a system, the total number of enclosures is reduced while providing redundancy and diversity within the cells.

Several electromagnetic scattering structures are designed to improve antenna radiation patterns. The electromagnetic scattering structure has a conductive layer with certain patterns, and is applied on the radome of the base-station sector antenna. The electromagnetic waves radiating from the antenna therein induce scattering effects, which, together with the electromagnetic diffractions from the rear metal panel of the antenna, can substantially reduce the back lobe and the fields in regions not covered by the antenna. Thus, the antenna radiation patterns are improved so that a lower possibility of co-channel interferences between adjacent base stations can be achieved and therefore better efficiency of the base-station coverage also can be obtained.

Systems and methods are disclosed which provide aggressively sculpted or shaped antenna beams, such as sector antenna beams, for use in communication networks. Preferred embodiments use passive antenna feed networks, preferably configured as personality modules, which are adapted for corresponding topological and morphological features. Preferred embodiment feed networks may be coupled to linear or curvilinear antenna arrays to provide antenna beams having a desired contour. Using the disclosed systems and methods path loss variance is minimized for improved system capacity and / or signal quality. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods provide for reduced average transmission power levels further allowing increased capacity and / or signal quality.

A low loss beam forming method and antenna structure are disclosed. The method and structure may preferably be used in forming two narrow beams within a cellular sector. This method allows an increase in the overall network capacity by using a three-column non-planar array and a compact, low-cost, low-loss 3-to-2 Beam-Forming Network (BFN). This structure produces two symmetrical beams with respect to the azimuth boresight. Radiation patterns of the two beams are designed to cover the entire azimuth coverage angle of a cellular sector with minimum beam-split loss and cross-over losses.

A low sidelobe beam forming method and dual-beam antenna schematic are disclosed, which may preferably be used for 3-sector and 6-sector cellular communication system. Complete antenna combines 2-, 3- or -4 columns dual-beam sub-arrays (modules) with improved beam-forming network (BFN). The modules may be used as part of an array, or as an independent 2-beam antenna. By integrating different types of modules to form a complete array, the present invention provides an improved dual-beam antenna with improved azimuth sidelobe suppression in a wide frequency band of operation, with improved coverage of a desired cellular sector and with less interference being created with other cells. Advantageously, a better cell efficiency is realized with up to 95% of the radiated power being directed in a desired cellular sector.

Several electromagnetic scattering structures are designed to improve antenna radiation patterns. The electromagnetic scattering structure has a conductive layer with certain patterns, and is applied on the radome of the base-station sector antenna. The electromagnetic waves radiating from the antenna therein induce scattering effects, which, together with the electromagnetic diffractions from the rear metal panel of the antenna, can substantially reduce the back lobe and the fields in regions not covered by the antenna. Thus, the antenna radiation patterns are improved so that a lower possibility of co-channel interferences between adjacent base stations can be achieved and therefore better efficiency of the base-station coverage also can be obtained.

A channel access method and apparatus are disclosed. The channel access method by an access point (AP) having a sector antenna in a wireless local access network (WLAN), may include transmitting a sector beacon with respect to any one sector among a plurality of sectors, transmitting and receiving data with at least one station in any one sector during a pre-scheduled sector interval, sequentially performing transmission of the sector beacon and transmission and reception of the data with respect to remaining sectors of the plurality of sectors excluding the any one sector, transmitting an omni beacon with respect to all of the plurality of sectors, and transmitting and receiving data with respect to at least one station of the plurality of sectors during a pre-scheduled Basic Service Set (BSS) interval.

An electronically steerable antenna system includes a plurality of panels that are coupled together to form an N-sided polygon. Each panel includes a plurality of microstrip conductor patches forming a phased array antenna. In a first embodiment that includes beam steering, each panel can selectively transmit or receive in a direction that is either perpendicular to the panel, or to the left or right of perpendicular, depending upon relative delay line lengths applied to the left and right antennas. A second embodiment omits the beam steering capability for each panel and simply enables only one of the N different panels to be employed for transmitting or receiving a radiofrequency signal in a direction perpendicular to the panel. PIN diodes are preferably used for selecting the panel that is active, and in the first embodiment, for selecting the delay lines used.

The invention discloses a high-gain vertical polarized all-metal sector antenna which adopts the structure that a partially-reflective surface (21) made of metal plates of an etching gap array is arranged at the upper part of a resonant cavity (2) and a ground plate (22) is arranged at the lower part of the resonant cavity (2); the peripheries of the space between the partially-reflective surface (21) and the ground plate (22) are connected through the metal plates (23); a gap (24) is formed between the partially-reflective surface (21) and the ground plate (22); a feed source (1) is arranged in the resonant cavity (2); a rectangular gap array (25) is arranged on the partially-reflective surface (21); the feed source (1) adopts a micro-trip patch or half-wave vibrator or variant structure of the half-wave vibrator; and the polarized direction of the feed source and the long edge direction of the rectangular gap are vertical. The invention has a simple structure and can achieve high gain without forming the array, and lobe maps in the horizontal plane and the vertical plane meet the requirements of the sector antenna.

A radio access network having multiple sectors comprises two or more sector transmitters serving respective sectors for transmitting data to mobile stations; a plurality of antennas, each antenna assigned to a respective sector transmitter; and a antenna management processor controlling sector antenna assignments and operative to dynamically reassign a sector antenna associated with a sector transmitter in a first sector to a sector transmitter in a second sector.

A system includes a satellite antenna adapted to receive right hand circularly polarized radiation and left hand circularly polarized radiation over a satellite link, and a terrestrial multiple sector antenna adapted to receive terrestrial communication; wherein the satellite antenna is oriented in relation to an imaginary vertical axis that is substantially parallel to multiple elements of the terrestrial multiple sector antenna. A method includes determining an operational mode of a system that comprises a satellite antenna adapted to receive right hand circularly polarized radiation and left hand circularly polarized radiation over a satellite link, and a terrestrial multiple sector antenna adapted to receive terrestrial communication; and selecting, in response to the operational mode, which radiation to output out of the radiation received by at least one receiving element out of the satellite antenna and an antenna element of the terrestrial multiple sector antenna.

A scheduling technique for wireless multihop relay communication systems is provided. With spatial separation caused by the shadowing effect of surrounding buildings, a base station and its relay stations in a single cell are divided into several groups by following the rule that stations with severe potential interference are separated into different groups. The base station arranges the scheduling of these groups and serves these groups sequentially in the time domain. To take advantage of shadow effect, the same radio resources can be scheduled for relay stations within the same group due to the isolation of interfering signals. In the present invention, base stations and relay stations are equipped with directional antennas or sector antennas to further exploit the advantage of spatial separations. Different relay groups can also reuse the radio resource through appropriate power control. The cell capacity can be enhanced substantially because of aggressive radio resource reuse.