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EP3314777A1 A ROTATABLE ANTENNA APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING A TRANSMISSION BEAM FOR THE ROTATABLE ANTENNA APPARATUS
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基本信息:
- 专利标题： A ROTATABLE ANTENNA APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING A TRANSMISSION BEAM FOR THE ROTATABLE ANTENNA APPARATUS
- 专利标题（中）：一种可旋转的天线装置及配置用于可旋转天线装置的传输波束的方法
- 申请号：EP16720502.0 申请日：2016-04-28
- 公开(公告)号：EP3314777A1 公开(公告)日：2018-05-02
- 发明人： LYSEJKO, Martin , DUDZINSKI, Krzysztof , BOZIER, Michele, Frances
- 申请人： Airspan Networks Inc.
- 申请人地址： 777 Yamoto Road, Suite 310 Boca Raton, FL 33431 US
- 专利权人： Airspan Networks Inc.
- 当前专利权人： Airspan Networks Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址： 777 Yamoto Road, Suite 310 Boca Raton, FL 33431 US
- 代理机构： D Young & Co LLP
- 优先权： GB201511200 20150625; GB201519228 20151030
- 国际公布： WO2016207588 20161229
- 主分类号： H04B7/06
- IPC分类号： H04B7/06
摘要：
An antenna apparatus operates as a base station in a wireless network, with a method configuring a transmission beam within such antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus has a rotatable antenna assembly employing selected transmission beam patterns, and a controller to rotate the antenna assembly altering its azimuth direction. During configuration mode, a sweep operation rotates the antenna assembly to selected azimuth directions. Quality metric determination circuitry determines, for each selected azimuth direction, a link quality metric for wireless terminals based on communication between the wireless terminals and the base station whilst the rotatable antenna assembly is at that selected azimuth direction. Transmission beam determination circuitry determines, from the link quality metrics determined for the wireless terminals at each selected azimuth direction, both a transmission beam pattern and an azimuth direction for subsequent communication with the wireless terminals. The antenna apparatus efficiently self-configures its transmission beam pattern and azimuth direction.