Picocells with MIMO and cell bonding for WLAN systems

Authors:
Jack Winters;Andrey Kobyakov;Michael Sauer
Affiliations:
Jack Winters Communications, Middletown, New Jersey;Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York;Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York
Venue:
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We consider a picocell system that implements multiple input multiple output (MIMO) using cell bonding with one antenna per node. We show that this picocell system can initially have 1/2 or fewer access points (APs) with similar voice over IP coverage as a conventional system, yet can gracefully grow to the capacity of conventional systems with the same number of APs. Although the coverage is somewhat lower for MIMO (both 2×2 and 4×4), we show that through the use of dynamic antenna/node selection the picocell system with cell bonding can have similar coverage to conventional systems.