Effect of the mobile terminal antenna efficiency on the cellular network issues

Author

Berg, M. ; Sonkki, M. ; Myllymäki, S. ; Tuovinen, T. ; Salonen, E.

Author_Institution

CWC, Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

1929

Lastpage

1933

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of the mobile terminal antenna efficiency on the RF power consumption and the link distance, that is cell radius, is discussed. An equation connecting the link distance, antenna efficiency, and path loss exponent is derived. Link distance is calculated with the different antenna efficiency values and with different cell scenarios based on 3GPP and ITU-A channel models. It is demonstrated that the compensation for the user effect has a positive impact both on the RF power consumption and on the theoretical link distance.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; mobile antennas; wireless channels; 3GPP channel models; ITU-A channel models; RF power consumption; antenna efficiency; cell radius; cellular network issues; link distance; mobile terminal antenna efficiency; path loss exponent; Channel models; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Power demand; Radio frequency; efficiency; link distance; mobile terminal antenna; power consumption;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206179

Filename

6206179