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Capacity Boost Technology

Challenges
As wireless communication came into the "Big Data" era, the
mobility and connectivity have become consumers' major
demands. The forecast shows that capacity requirements
will increase by 1,000 times beyond 2020, and therefore all
technologies are expected to focus on how to provide higher-
speed networks and improve customer experience.
As one of the important parts of the wireless network, mobile

cellular network antennas also require a number of cutting-edge
strategies and technologies to maximize the performance of the
wireless network.
Huawei Technology Overview and Values

Many technologies, such as multiple-input and multiple-output Figure 1 MIMO
(MIMO) and dual-beam, have been developed, facilitating capacity
enhancing of mobile cellular network antennas.
High Order MIMO Capabilities
MIMO uses multiple antennas on both the transmitter and receiver As shown in figure 1, to enhance the antenna capacity, MIMO enables
ends to improve communications performance. It significantly the same total transmit power over antennas to achieve an array gain
increases data throughput without additional bandwidth and that improves the spectral efficiency. In addition, MIMO achieves a
transmit power, which attracts much attention in the LTE industry. diversity gain that improves the link reliability (reduced fading).

At the very beginning of the cellular network, antennas with only Since the capacity becomes a major challenge in the mobile
one vertical-polarized dipole column are applied to support 1T1R broadband (MBB) era, MIMO enables multiple antennas to
(1 transmitting and 1 receiving) when the wireless environment transmit and receive signals on both the uplink and downlink.
is not complex. With the development of urban informatization, Generally, at least 2 x 2 MIMO antennas are required for LTE
antennas supporting cross-polarized dipole columns (1T2R) are and 4 x 4 MIMO antennas are required for LTE-Advanced. Table
developed to deal with the multi-path effect of buildings and 1 lists the network capacities on both the uplink and downlink
vehicles (see figure 2). supported by MIMO.
Figure 2 Antenna diversity evolution to support MIMO Table 1 Capacity improvement with MIMO in uplink and downlink
Capacity Gain
Uplink
Cell Average Cell Edge
4R VS 2R 30%-65% 50%-170%
Capacity Gain
Downlink
Cell Average Cell Edge
1T1R 1T2R 2T4R or 4T4R 4 x 2 MIMO VS 2 x 2 MIMO 10-15% 10-40%

1 V-pol column 1 X-pol column 2 X-pol column
4 x 4 MIMO VS 2 x 2 MIMO 40-90% 40-100%
Dual-Beam Antenna Solution
Generally, the 2G network had been designed for voice services Figure 2 Antenna diversity evolution to support MIMO
only, while the 3G network, such as UMTS, was first to combine
circuit-switched voice services and packed-based data services,
and therefore becomes the most developed network all around
the world. However, some 3G networks are quite overloaded due
to limited spectrum resources of each operator. In this situation,
6-sector solutions can be adopted to meet the capacity expansion
requirements (see figure 3). 3-sector cellular network 6-sector cellular network
For a 6-sector cellular network, a well-designed dual-beam antenna

can be adopted to enhance the network performance and simplify
antenna deployment and installation compared with traditional 33o
horizontal beamwidth antenna in the following aspects:
Less overlapping areas between sectors enable easy control of
the soft handover (SHO) ratio.
The patterns are designed to be more isolated to reduce
interference between the two sectors.
Only one mounting space is required to reduce the labor cost.

Besides, Huawei also adopts radiation pattern optimization designs As a result of cell splitting, capacity of 6-sector cellular networks
for dual-beam antennas to reduce the horizontal side lobe further is greatly improved compared with that of 3-sector cellular
more than traditional dual-beam antenna design (see figure 4). networks, Table 2 describes the comparison.
Figure 4 Comparison of dual-beam antenna designs Table 2 Comparison of dual-beam antenna designs
Dense Urban Urban

72%
49%
39%
19%
Traditional dual-beam antenna Huawei dual-beam antenna

with high horizontal side lobe with horizontal side lobe optimization 6-sector (normal 33deg ant.) 6-sector (dual-beam)
Huawei Antenna Portfolio with Capacity Boost Technology
Dual-beam antenna
Band (MHz): 2 x 1710-2690 Band (MHz): 2 x 1710-2170/ Band (MHz): 1710-2690/1710-2170/

Size (mm): 1500 x 349 x 166 2 x 2490-2690 2490-2690
Beamwidth (o): 33 Length (m): 1.5 Length (m): 1.5
Gain (dBi): 20.5 Small size (W x D): 299 mm x 109 mm Small size (W x D): 299 mm x 109 mm
MIMO: 2 x 2/2 x 4/4 x 4 MIMO: 2 x 2/2 x 4/4 x 4
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