DocumentCode
1519781
Title
Picocells with MIMO and Cell Bonding for WLANs
Author
Winters, Jack ; Kobyakov, Andrey ; Sauer, Michael
Author_Institution
Jack Winters Commun., LLC, Middletown, NJ, USA
Volume
29
Issue
6
fYear
2011
fDate
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1164
Lastpage
1171
Abstract
We consider a picocell system that implements multiple input multiple output (MIMO) using cell bonding with one antenna per node. We show that this picocell system can initially have 1/2 or fewer access points (APs) with similar voice over IP coverage as a conventional system, yet can gracefully grow to the capacity of conventional systems with the same number of APs. Although the coverage is somewhat lower for MIMO (both 2X2 and 4X4), we show that through the use of dynamic antenna/node selection the picocell system with cell bonding can have similar coverage to conventional systems.
Keywords
MIMO communication; antennas; wireless LAN; MIMO; WLAN; cell bonding; dynamic antenna; multiple input multiple output; node selection; picocells; voice over IP coverage; Bonding; Downlink; Fading; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; MIMO; Picocells; cell bonding; distributed antenna system; radio over fiber;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0733-8716
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JSAC.2011.110605
Filename
5770662
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