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Base station

About: Base station is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 85883 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1019303 citations. The topic is also known as: Mobile phone base stations & BS.


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01 Oct 1992
TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one/more intermediate base stations, and one/or more RF terminals is presented.
Abstract: An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and from the RF terminals and the host computer efficiently and dynamically. Communication between the host computer and the RF terminals is achieved by using the network of intermediate base stations to transmit the data.

705 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
21 Apr 1997
TL;DR: This paper reviews space-time signal processing in mobile wireless communications and focuses on antenna arrays deployed at the base stations since such applications are of current practical interest.
Abstract: This paper reviews space-time signal processing in mobile wireless communications. Space-time processing refers to the signal processing performed in the spatial and temporal domain on signals received at or transmitted from an antenna array, in order to improve performance of wireless networks. We focus on antenna arrays deployed at the base stations since such applications are of current practical interest.

693 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new network architecture that overlays an uplink cellular network with randomly deployed power beacons (PBs) for powering mobiles, called a hybrid network.
Abstract: Microwave power transfer (MPT) delivers energy wirelessly from stations called power beacons (PBs) to mobile devices by microwave radiation. This provides mobiles practically infinite battery lives and eliminates the need of power cords and chargers. To enable MPT for mobile recharging, this paper proposes a new network architecture that overlays an uplink cellular network with randomly deployed PBs for powering mobiles, called a hybrid network. The deployment of the hybrid network under an outage constraint on data links is investigated based on a stochastic-geometry model where single-antenna base stations (BSs) and PBs form independent homogeneous Poisson point processes (PPPs) with densities λb and λp, respectively, and single-antenna mobiles are uniformly distributed in Voronoi cells generated by BSs. In this model, mobiles and PBs fix their transmission power at p and q, respectively; a PB either radiates isotropically, called isotropic MPT, or directs energy towards target mobiles by beamforming, called directed MPT. The model is used to derive the tradeoffs between the network parameters (p, λb, q, λp) under the outage constraint. First, consider the deployment of the cellular network. It is proved that the outage constraint is satisfied so long as the product pλbα/2 is above a given threshold where α is the path-loss exponent. Next, consider the deployment of the hybrid network assuming infinite energy storage at mobiles. It is shown that for isotropic MPT, the product qλpλbα/2 has to be above a given threshold so that PBs are sufficiently dense; for directed MPT, zmqλpλbα/2 with zm denoting the array gain should exceed a different threshold to ensure short distances between PBs and their target mobiles. Furthermore, similar results are derived for the case of mobiles having small energy storage.

690 citations

Proceedings Article
16 Jun 2010
TL;DR: Such power models for macro and micro base stations relying on data sheets of several GSM and UMTS base stations with focus on component level, e.g., power amplifier and cooling equipment are developed.
Abstract: In wireless communications micro cells are potentially more energy efficient than conventional macro cells due to the high path loss exponent. Also, heterogeneous deployments of both cell types can be used to optimize the energy efficiency. Energy efficiency of any deployment is impacted by the power consumption of each individual network element and the dependency of transmit power and load. In this paper we developed such power models for macro and micro base stations relying on data sheets of several GSM and UMTS base stations with focus on component level, e.g., power amplifier and cooling equipment. In a first application of the model a traditional macro cell deployment and a heterogeneous deployment are compared.

686 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
22 Apr 2001
TL;DR: The initial simulation results show that the PCMA can improve the throughput performance of the non-power controlled IEEE 802.11 by a factor of 2 with potential for additional scalability as source-destination pairs become more localized, thus providing a compelling reason for migrating to a new power controlled multiple access wireless MAC protocol standard.
Abstract: Multiple access-based collision avoidance MAC protocols have typically used fixed transmission power, and have not considered power control mechanisms based on the distance of the transmitter and receiver in order to improve spatial channel reuse. This work proposes PCMA, a power controlled multiple access wireless MAC protocol within the collision avoidance framework. PCMA generalizes the transmit-or-defer "on/off" collision avoidance model of current protocols to a more flexible "variable bounded power" collision suppression model. The algorithm is provisioned for ad hoc networks and does not require the presence of base stations to manage transmission power (i.e. it is decentralized). The advantage of implementing a power controlled protocol in an ad-hoc network is that source-destination pairs can be more tightly packed into the network allowing a greater number of simultaneous transmissions (spectral reuse). Our initial simulation results show that the PCMA can improve the throughput performance of the non-power controlled IEEE 802.11 by a factor of 2 with potential for additional scalability as source-destination pairs become more localized, thus providing a compelling reason for migrating to a new power controlled multiple access wireless MAC protocol standard.

685 citations


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Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,277
20222,829
20211,823
20203,484
20194,001
20184,426