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You can use directional antennas, beamforming and other techniques to achieve sectorization.
by foobarqux 12y ago
You can use directional antennas, beamforming and other techniques to achieve sectorization.
- ithinkso 12y agoBut lte's base stations has actually very limited capacity, thats why in cities there are a lot of micro cells for capacity and much less 'full range' cells for coverage.
- foobarqux 12y agoYou can put multiple base stations on the balloon but I'm not sure what the capacity constraints are so I don't know if that would be a reasonable solution.
- digikata 12y agoYes, but then you also need to stabilize the antenna platform, either physically, or electronically or both. All that increases the cost vs a terrestrial tower where the stabilization requirements will be lower. Not saying it would be impossible, it would be a fun and interesting problem to work on, but it would be interesting because it seems like there's a nice solution in there at the intersection of all those problems...
- foobarqux 12y agoIt would be pretty trivial to add electronic beamsteering but it's not clear it is even necessary: It should be okay if the cells move a little bit.