Abstract
Measurements were taken during PCS 1900 field trials to quantify the difference in two branch diversity improvement between conventional space diversity of > 10 wavelengths spacing and horizontal/vertical polarization diversity at cell sites in the MCI test systems in Richardson, Texas and Washington, DC. Data was taken with both the mobile unit antenna vertical, and with the mobile antenna tilted 45 degrees to the vertical to simulate the typical operating position of a handheld subscriber terminal. A simple evaluation method, using the inherent monitoring facilities contained within the GSM signal format, was developed and used during testing. Under conditions representative of handheld operation, results indicate that base station receiver polarization diversity provided an attractive alternative to space diversity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Experimental Licenses KQ2XJO and KQ2XLE. MCI has filed quarterly reports to the FCC. MCI conducted both QCDMA and PCS 1900 tests. This analysis deals only with selected PCS 1900 test runs.
Keller, C.M., and Brown, M.C., “Propagation Measurements for 1.9 GHz High-Gain Antenna Design”, to be presented I.E.E.E. V.T.G. 1995. This work was prepared under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between MIT Lincoln Labs and MCI.
Lee, W.C.Y., Mobile Communications Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Ho, C.M Peter, and Rappaport, Theodore S., “Effects of Antenna Polarization and Beam Pattern on Multipath Delay Spread and Path Loss in Indoor Obstructed Wireless Channels”
Smith, M.S., and Neal, L, “A Comparison of Polarisation and Space Diversity for Indoor Propagation at 900 MHz”, ICUPC 1993
Vaughan, Rodney, “Polarization Diversity in Mobile Communications”, IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology, Vol 39, No 3, August 1990
McGladdery, W.A., and Stapleton, S., “Investigation of Polarization Effects in Indoor Radio Propagation”, IEEE ICWE 1992
Jakes, William, C., Microwave Mobile Communications, IEEE Press
Eggers, Patrick, Toftgard, Jorn, and Oprea, Alex, “Antenna Systems for Base Station Diversity in Urban Small and Micro Cells”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol 11, No. 7, Sept. 1993
Mouly, Michel, and Pautet, Marie-Bernadatte, The GSM System for Mobile Communications
ETSI GSM Recommendation, Section 5.08 (v4.6.0), para 8.2.4, July 1993
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1996 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Donaldson, P., Ferguson, R., Kmiec, E., Voss, R. (1996). Space vs. Polarization Diversity Gain in 2 GHz PCS 1900. In: Rappaport, T.S., Woerner, B.D., Reed, J.H. (eds) Wireless Personal Communications. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 424. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5491-2_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5491-2_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-7509-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-5491-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive