Antenna arrangement system capable of reducing co-channel interference

• US 5,307,507 A
• Filed: 12/28/1990
• Issued: 04/26/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kanai, Toshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, CHI H
• Application Number:
  US07/636,864
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.3, 455/33.4, 455/34.1, 455/56.1, 379/59, 379/60
• US Class Current: 455/447
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/02 Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/12 Fixed resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures

Abstract

In an antenna arrangement system having a plurality of radio base stations each of which defines a cell approximated by a regular hexagon and divided into six sectors first and second ones of which are directed towards an angle of 0 degree with respect to an x-axis and towards an angle of 180 degrees, respectively, in an orthogonal coordinate system, first and second base stations are selected from the radio base stations to assign a common frequency channel to the first and the second sectors, respectively, and are located at first and second coordinate positions, respectively. The first and the second coordinate positions may be represented by (√3 Rni, 3Rj/2) and (√3 R(2ni-1)/2, 3Rj/2) where j takes an even number and an odd number, respectively, and R is representative of a real number, n, a natural number; i and j, integers. Alternatively, the first and the second coordinate positions may be represented by (√3 Rni, 3Rj/2) and (√3 R(3ni-3)/2, 3Rj/2) under the same conditions. The first and the second coordinate positions may not be restricted to the above-exemplified positions.

Claims

1. An antenna arrangement system for use in a cellular system which comprises a plurality of radio base stations dispersed in a service area which is defined by an orthogonal coordinate system having an x-axis extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction and a y-axis which is orthogonal to the x-axis and which is also extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction, the radio base stations having cells approximately specified by regular hexagonal configurations, respectively, and being located at x- and y-axis positions which are specified by i, j, and r, where i and j are integers determined along the x- and the y-axes, respectively, and R is representative of a length of each side of the regular hexagonal configurations, the x- and the y-axis positions of the respective radio base stations being given by:

##EQU2## each of said radio base stations having a set of six directional antennae which have different frequency channels assigned thereto and including a first antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 0 degrees with respect to the positive direction of a selected one of the x- and y-axes and a second antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 180 degrees with respect to the positive direction of the selected one of the x- and the y-axes,

the plurality of the radio base stations including first and second selected base stations which have sectors determined by the first and the second antennae directed towards the angles of 0 and 180 degrees opposite to each other, respectively, and which have a common one of the frequency channels that is assigned to the sectors which are determined by the first and the second antennae and which are laid in directions of the angles of 0 and 180 degrees relative to the selected one of the x- and y-axes,

the first and the second selected base stations being located in said coordinate system at the first and the second coordinate positions specified by an even number and an odd number of j, respectively, the selected one of the x- and the y-axes being the x-axis,

the first coordinate positions being given by (√

3 RnK, 3Rj/2) where j takes an even number;

n, a natural number; and

k, an integer, while the second coordinate positions are given by √

3 R(2nk-1)/2, 3Rj/2 where j takes an odd number.

2. An antenna arrangement system for use in a cellular system which comprises a plurality of radio base stations dispersed in a service area which is defined by an orthogonal coordinate system having an x-axis extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction and a y-axis which is orthogonal to the x-axis and which is also extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction, the radio base stations having cells approximately specified by regular hexagonal configurations, respectively, and being located at x- and y-axis positions which are specified by i, j, and R, where i and j are integers determined along the x- and the y-axes, respectively, and R is representative of a length of each side of the regular hexagonal configurations, the x- and the y-axis positions of the respective radio base stations being given by:

##EQU3## each of said radio base stations having a set of six directional antennae which have different frequency channels assigned thereto and including a first antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 0 degrees with respect to the positive direction of a selected one of the x- and the y-axes and a second antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 180 degrees with respect to the positive direction of the selected one of the x- and the y-axes,

the plurlity of the radio base stations including first and second selected base stations which have sectors determined by the first antenna of the first selected base station and the second antenna of the second selected base station directed towards the angles of 0 and 180 degrees opposite to each other, respectively, and which have a common one of the frequency channels that is assigned to the sectors which are determined by the first and the second antennae and which are laid in directions of the angles of 0 and 180 degrees relative to the selected one of the x- and y-axes,

the first and the second selected base stations being located in said coordinate system at the first and the second coordinate positions specified by an even number and an odd number of j, respectively, the selected one of the x- and the y-axes being the x-axis,

the first coordinate positions being given by (√

3 Rnk, 3Rj/2) where j takes an even number, k is an integer, and n is a natural number while the second coordinate positions are given by (√

3R(2nk-3)/2), 3Rj/2 where j takes an odd number, k is an integer and n is a natural number.

3. An antenna arrangement system for use in a cellular system which comprises a plurality of radio base stations dispersed in a service area which is defined by an orthogonal coordinate system having an x-axis extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction, and a y-axis which is orthogonal to the x-axis and which is also extended from a negative direction towards a positive direction, the radio base stations having cells approximately specified by regular hexagonal configurations, respectively, and being located at x- and y-axis positions which are specified by i, j, and R, where i and j are integers determined along the x- and y-axes, respectively, and R is representative of a length of each side of the regular hexagonal configurations, the x- and the y-axis positions of the respective radio base stations being given by:

##EQU4## each of said radio base stations having a set of six directional antennae which have different frequency channels assigned thereto and including a first antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 0 degrees with respect to the positive direction of the x-axis and a second antenna which has directivity directed towards an angle of 180 degrees with respect to the positive direction of the x-axis,

the plurality of the radio base stations including first and second selected base stations which have sectors determined by the first antenna of the first selected base station and the second antenna of the second selected base station directed towards the angles of 0 and 180 degrees opposite to each other, respectively, and which have a common one of the frequency channels that is assigned to the sectors which are determined by the first and the second antennae and which are laid in directions of the angles of 0 and 180 degrees relative to the x-axis,

the first and the second selected base stations being located in said coordinate system at the first and the second coordinate positions specified by an even number and an odd number of j, respectively,

the first coordinate positions being given by (0, √

3Rj) where j is an integer while the second coordinate positions are given by (-3R/2, √

3(2j-1)/2).