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Title:
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Attitude estimation for base station antennas based on downlink channel statistics
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Author:
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Ling, Cen; He, Yonguy; Yin, Xuefeng; Zhong, Zhimeng; Duan, Weiming; Ruiz Boqué, Sílvia
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. WiComTec - Grup de recerca en Tecnologies i Comunicacions Sense Fils |
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Abstract:
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In this contribution, a maximum-likelihood-based approach is proposed for estimating the attitudes of sectoring base station (BS) antennas based on the power of the received signals observed by multiple user equipments (UEs) in a cellular network. The proposed method calculates the likelihood of the antenna attitude by taking into account both the large-scale fading statistics, i.e. path loss, shadowing, and the small-scale fading attributed to multi-path propagation. The performance of the method is evaluated by simulations in both urban and rural scenarios, where a random-propagation-graph method is applied to generating realistic channel impulse responses by using directional antenna patterns. Results show that by using the proposed method, accurate estimates of the antenna attitude can be obtained when the observations from more UEs are available and the line-of-sight (LoS) condition dominates the channels between the BS and the UEs. |
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Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
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Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Antenes i agrupacions d'antenes
-Antennas (Electronics)
-Antenna attitude
-Maximum-likelihood algorithm
-Multipath fading
-Path loss
-Propagation graph modeling
-Received signal power
-Shadow fading
-Antenes (Electrònica) |
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Document type:
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Article - Published version
Conference Object |
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Published by:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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