An Intriguing Relation Between the Power Consumption and Number of Antenna Elements in Multi-Beam Phased Arrays

An improved system-level power consumption model (PCM) for 5G base station multi-beam phased-array transmit architectures is developed. Using this model, it is shown that an optimum number of antenna elements of the array exists with respect to the total power consumption. The proposed model is benchmarked against a recent study which is shown...

Site-Specific Ultra-Low-Sidelobe Phased Array Topologies for Sparse Areas of Particular Shape

Optimal design of uniformly-fed aperiodic millimeter-wave phased array topologies for site-specific and quasi interference-free operation is presented. Several use cases with different number of line-of-sight cells in the close vicinity of the base station, and for various widths and shapes of the cells, are analyzed. The arrays are synthesized...