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White paper: MIMO and smart antennas
15 October 2010
Smart antenna techniques, from 3G Americas
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3G Americas
3G
4G
LTE
mobile data
mobile broadband
wireless broadband
According to Chetan Sharma’s analysis of the US wireless market, wireless data traffic exceeded voice traffic in 2008 and grew by 193% in 2009 to over 400 petabytes (400 x 1015 Bytes), about 4.4 times the information content of the deep web.
With this rapid growth of wireless data traffic, now greatly exceeding voice traffic in many developed markets, operators are anxious to quickly expand the capacity of their wireless networks. To address these demands for increased capacity in a cost effective way, 3GPP standards have incorporated powerful techniques for using so-called "Smart Antennas." This paper outlines the considerable importance of various smart antenna schemes for improving the capacity (and coverage) of the merging generations of wireless networks.
Download this 3G Americas white paper from here (PDF, 5.3 megabytes)
