On the size of antenna cluster in multi-user distributed antenna systems

Author

Feng, Wei ; Li, Yunzhou ; Gan, Jiansong ; Zhou, Shidong ; Wang, Jing ; Xia, Minghua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1101

Lastpage

1105

Abstract

In this paper, multi-user distributed antenna systems (DAS) with antennas deployed in clusters are studied. In order to investigate the impact of the size of antenna cluster on the system performance, the mean square access distance (MSAD), which is a function of the size of antenna cluster, is defined as a metric of the system performance. From the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the metric, we obtain the approximate closed-form expressions for the expectation and relative variance of the MSAD. Accordingly, we find out the semi-quantitative relationship between the size of antenna cluster and the system performance. Moreover, the benefits of the DAS under different cluster size are discussed. The validity of our analysis is well verified by simulations.

Keywords

antennas; mean square error methods; mobile communication; antenna cluster; closed-form expressions; cluster size; distributed antenna systems; multiuser antenna systems; wireless networks; Analysis of variance; Analytical models; Closed-form solution; Digital communication; Information science; Laboratories; Microwave antennas; Microwave technology; Research and development; System performance; Distributed antenna systems (DAS); antenna cluster size; mean square access distance (MSAD);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking in China, 2008. ChinaCom 2008. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2373-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2374-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685218

Filename

4685218