Title :
Value-Chain Engineering of a Tower-Top Cellular Base Station System
Author :
Cooper, Tim ; Farrell, Ronan
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microelecronics & Wireless Syst., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth
Abstract :
In this paper we present a value chain analysis of mobile phone basestations, with a focus on possible antenna based tower-top electronics. Through this analysis we are able to present a number of possible architectural solutions and provide guidance on performance and reliability criterion.
Keywords :
cellular radio; value engineering; mobile phone basestations; tower-top cellular base station system; value-chain engineering; Base stations; Cables; Costs; Hardware; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Mobile handsets; Production; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th
Conference_Location :
Dublin
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0266-2
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2007.652
