Predicting multi-element receive & transmit array capacity outdoors with ray tracing

13 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1 (10903038) , 392-394
https://doi.org/10.1109/vetecs.2001.944871

Abstract

We construct a few canonical cases consisting of diffracting wedges and simple linear arrays, as steps towards predicting capacity for an entire cell, highlighting important propagation mechanisms. We show that a diffracting wedge can collapse capacity of multi-element arrays. If more that one wedge is present, the capacity increases. These effects are demonstrated theoretically and numerically through ray-tracing.

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