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Modulo I Radio Frecuencia en Los Sistemas de Comunicaciones Móviles - Anexo II
Modulo I Radio Frecuencia en Los Sistemas de Comunicaciones Móviles - Anexo II
Modulo I Radio Frecuencia en Los Sistemas de Comunicaciones Móviles - Anexo II
MODULO I
ANEXO 2
Antenna Repeaters
Repeater: full duplex RF amplifier to extend the coverage area of a base station, only layer 1 of
OSI model (transparent for protocols).
service pick-up
antenna antenna
f DL f DL
f DL
f UL
f UL
f DL
f UL f UL
amplifier
donor BTS
Receiving, amplifying and retransmitting signals from donor base station (DL) and from UE(UL)
with or without frequency conversion.
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Antenna Repeaters
Advantages:
Typical specifications
• Reduction of mobile transmit power
for a WCDMA repeater:
• Increasing cell size
DL transmit power: 5W
• Cheaper than Node B
UL transmit power: 0.25 W
(often more economical to fill coverage holes)
Delay: 5 s
• Small, easy to find suitable site
UL noise figure: 3 dB
• Often no site permission necessary
Size: 50 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm
• Delay of 5 s small enough for inner loop power control
Weight: 25 kg
• Easy implemented in existing network
Disadvantages:
• No increase of capacity, decrease of capacity density
• Decrease in Link Budget (no RX diversity increased required Eb/No for repeater)
• WCDMA repeater cannot clean bit stream, amplifies signal plus noise
• Decrease of signal quality (two receiver sub-systems + additional transmitter)
• Often no Rx diversity possible
• No soft handover between repeater and parent cell
• Enhanced RRM algorithm needed
(AC: RNC doesn’t know maximum Tx power of repeater)
• Decoupling problems
• Time delay problems
• Complicates network planning
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y Capacitación de Telecomunicaciones
Typical active antenna array architecture showing the tradeoffs in the number of
active antenna elements used. Representative values only; the gains, numbers and
2Tx2Rx in one or two active antenna elements are all design dependent parameters.
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Instituto Nacional de Investigación
y Capacitación de Telecomunicaciones
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