A Design Concept of Power Efficient, High Gain Antenna System for mm-Waves Base Stations
Paper in proceeding, 2021

A design concept for a phased-array-fed reflector antenna system intended for millimeter-wave base stations is presented. This concept is motivated by the need for efficient beamforming antenna systems with reduced power consumption as compared to the presently considered fully-populated large-scale MIMO arrays. The main idea is to use a high-gain reflector antenna to maximize the effective isotropic radiated power. That in turn, allows minimizing the number of active antenna elements of the phased-array feed, and hence limit the total supplied power. The proposed reflector antenna system is based on a torus reflector which is illuminated by an offset phased-array feed. We show how to determine the antenna design parameters to achieve the desired cell coverage.

reflector antennas

phased-array feeds

mm-wave antennas

reflector antenna feeds

focal plane arrays

Author

Amr Elsakka

Eindhoven University of Technology

Ericsson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

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U. Johannsen

Eindhoven University of Technology

Oleg Iupikov

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

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M. N. Johansson

Ericsson

Marianna Ivashina

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

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A. B. Smolders

Eindhoven University of Technology

2021 15TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (EUCAP)

2164-3342 (ISSN)

Silicon-based Ka-band massive MIMO antenna systems for new telecommunication services (SILIKA)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/721732), 2016-09-01 -- 2020-08-31.

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