Antenna Module Beam Segmentation for Capacity
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Solution Overview
Problem
The wireless communications industry faces a shortage of spectrum resources, limiting the development of wireless communications technologies, and existing methods to increase transmit antennas within a unit area, such as heterogeneous networks, are difficult to implement and limited in practical application.
Innovation Solution
A wireless communications apparatus and method that transmits a wide beam and at least two narrow beams to a coverage area, allowing for data transmission with user equipment using these beams, without requiring a new site, thereby increasing the number of transmit antennas within a unit area and enhancing capacity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If heterogeneous network method is used to increase quantity of transmit antennas within unit area, then spectrum utilization is improved, but device complexity and implementation difficulty increase due to requiring new sites
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the coverage area of a macro base station into multiple sectors, and further divides each sector into multiple beam coverage areas. By transmitting wide beams and narrow beams to different beam coverage areas within the same sector, the system increases the number of transmit antennas within unit area without requiring new physical sites, thus improving spectrum utilization while avoiding the complexity of heterogeneous network deployment.
2Productivity
If heterogeneous network method is used to increase quantity of transmit antennas within unit area, then spectrum utilization is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in obtaining new sites
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables a single macro base station to serve multiple beam coverage areas within its sector by transmitting both wide beams and narrow beams. This multi-functional approach allows the existing base station to increase capacity and spectrum utilization without requiring additional sites, making the solution easy to implement and operate while maintaining high productivity.
3Productivity
If wide beam and narrow beams are transmitted to same coverage area, then capacity within unit area is increased, but object-generated harmful factors increase due to potential interference
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different beam types to different spatial regions: wide beams are transmitted to wide beam coverage areas, and narrow beams are transmitted to narrow beam coverage areas within the same sector. This localized approach ensures that each beam type serves its designated area, increasing capacity while minimizing interference between beams by ensuring they operate in distinct spatial zones.
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AI summary
A wireless communications apparatus and method are used to resolve a problem in the prior art that increasing a system capacity by using a HetNet method causes a waste of device resources and is difficult to implement in practical application. An antenna module transmits a wide beam, transmits at least two narrow beams to a coverage area of the wide beam, and performs data transmission with UE within the coverage area of the wide beam by using at least one transmitted beam. By means of the foregoing method, under a condition that no new site is added, a quantity of transmit antennas within a unit area can be increased, and a capacity within the unit area can be increased, which is not limited in practical application and is easy to implement.