EP3067988B1 - Antenna and method for transmitting and receiving wireless signal - Google Patents

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EP3067988B1
EP3067988B1 EP14865653.1A EP14865653A EP3067988B1 EP 3067988 B1 EP3067988 B1 EP 3067988B1 EP 14865653 A EP14865653 A EP 14865653A EP 3067988 B1 EP3067988 B1 EP 3067988B1
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    • H01Q21/24—Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction
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  • the present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an antenna and methods for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal.
  • Horizontal split refers to increasing a quantity of beams on a horizontal plane, thereby doubling system capacity
  • vertical split refers to increasing a quantity of beams on a vertical plane.
  • a multi-column antenna is used as a horizontal split antenna, and therefore a width of the antenna is increased; and vertical split is implemented by using a circuit network, and therefore system complexity is increased.
  • horizontal split and vertical split change sector coverage of an original antenna, a large amount of network planning and network optimization needs to be performed on the system again.
  • Prior art CN102907168 describes a base station antenna and base station antenna feed network.
  • the present application provides an antenna and methods for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal, to resolve problems in the prior art that an increase in system capacity leads to a large antenna volume and high device complexity.
  • the M first antenna elements and the K multiplexing antenna elements are located in a straight line.
  • the second power splitter is configured to split the second beam signal into k2+n second beam branch signals; and the antenna further includes a second phase-shift network and a second antenna array, where the second phase-shift network separately performs phase-shift processing on the n second beam branch signals, to obtain N second beam branch phase-shifted signals that all have different phases, where n is less than or equal to N, and N is less than M; and the second antenna array includes N second antenna elements, the K multiplexing antenna elements are arranged in a straight line, the N second antenna elements and the M first antenna elements are located at two ends of the K multiplexing antenna elements, the N second antenna elements are configured to transmit the N second beam branch signals, and a second beam is formed after the N second beam branch signals and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted.
  • the N second antenna elements, the M first antenna elements, and the K multiplexing antenna elements are located in a straight line.
  • the signal multiplexing network includes a Butler matrix consisting of multiple phase shifters and one 3DB bridge, where the Butler matrix is configured to perform signal multiplexing processing on the k1 first beam branch signals and the k2 second beam branch signals, to obtain K multiplexed signals; and the multiple phase shifters are disposed at input ends and/or output ends of the Butler matrix, and configured to perform phase shifting on the first beam branch signals, the second beam branch signals, and/or the multiplexed signals.
  • the first phase-shift network when m is equal to M, the first phase-shift network includes at least M-1 phase shifters; and when m is less than M, the first phase-shift network includes at least M-1 phase shifters and at least one power splitter.
  • the second phase-shift network when n is equal to N, the second phase-shift network includes at least N-1 phase shifters; and when n is less than N, the second phase-shift network includes at least N-1 phase shifters and at least one power splitter.
  • the present application further provides a method for transmitting an antenna signal, including: separately receiving a first beam signal and a second beam signal; splitting the first beam signal into k1+m first beam branch signals; splitting the second beam signal into k2 second beam branch signals; performing phase-shift processing on the m first beam branch signals, to obtain M first beam branch signals that all have different phases; performing signal multiplexing and phase-shift processing on the k1 first beam branch signals and the k2 second beam branch signals by using a signal multiplexing network that includes L input ends, to obtain K multiplexed signals that all have different phases; transmitting the M first beam branch signals by using a first antenna array that includes M first antenna elements; transmitting the K multiplexed signals by using a multiplexing antenna array that includes K multiplexing antenna elements distributed with the M first antenna elements in a straight line; and forming a first beam after the M first beam branch signals and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted, and forming a second beam after the K multiplexed signals are transmitted
  • the method further includes: splitting the second beam signal into n second beam branch signals; separately performing phase-shift processing on the n second beam branch signals, to obtain N second beam branch signals that all have different phases; and transmitting the N second beam branch signals by using a second antenna array that includes N second antenna elements distributed with the M first antenna elements and the K multiplexing antenna elements in a straight line, and forming a second beam after the N second beam branch signals and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted.
  • the present application further provides an antenna receiving method, including: receiving a target beam by using a multiplexing antenna array and a first antenna array, where the multiplexing antenna array includes K multiplexing antenna elements, and the first antenna array includes M first antenna elements that are distributed with the K multiplexing antenna elements in a straight line; performing phase shifting on a target beam received by the M first antenna elements, to obtain m third beam branch signals that all have different phases; performing signal separation and phase shifting on a target beam received by the K multiplexing antenna elements, to obtain k1 third beam branch signals and k2 fourth beam branch signals; and combining the m+kl third beam branch signals to obtain a third beam signal, or combining the k2 fourth beam branch signals into a fourth beam signal.
  • the method further includes: receiving a target beam by using a second antenna array, where the second antenna array includes N second antenna elements that are distributed with the K multiplexing antenna elements and the M first antenna elements in a straight line; performing phase shifting on the target beam received by the N second antenna elements, to obtain n fourth beam branch signals that all have different phases; and combining the n+k2 fourth beam branch signals into a fourth beam signal.
  • the first beam is first split into k1+m first beam branch signals, and the second beam is split into k2 second beam branch signals; then phase shifting is performed on the k1 first beam branch signals by using a first phase-shift network, signal multiplexing and phase-shift processing are performed on the k1 first beam branch signals and the k2 second beam branch signals by using a signal multiplexing network to obtain K multiplexed signals, M first beam branch phase-shifted signals are transmitted by using a first antenna array 50, and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted by using a multiplexing antenna array 40; after being transmitted, the K multiplexed signals form a second beam, and the K multiplexed signals and the M first beam branch phase-shifted signals jointly form a first beam.
  • Sizes of branch signals that are obtained by means of splitting by using the first power splitter and the second power splitter and phase shifts of the branch signals and multiplexed signals on which the phase shifting is performed are controlled; in this way, the first beam and the second beam that are finally obtained may vary in gains, downtilt angles, and vertical-plane beam widths.
  • the antenna provided in the embodiments of the present application can allow that some antenna elements are multiplexed for two different beams, and the formed two beams may vary in downtilt angles by adjusting sizes and phases of branch signals of the beam signals, so that the two beams have different directions, and consequently coverage areas are different and do not overlap. Therefore, the antenna can increase system capacity without increasing an antenna volume.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an antenna according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • the antenna includes: a first power splitter 10, a second power splitter 20, a signal multiplexing network 30, a multiplexing antenna array 40, a first antenna array 50, and a first phase-shift network 60.
  • the first power splitter 10 is configured to receive a first beam signal, and split the first beam signal into k1+m first beam branch signals. According to requirements on a transmitted first beam, an equal power splitter or an unequal power splitter may be selected as the first power splitter 10, and sizes of first beam branch signals obtained by means of splitting by using the unequal power splitter vary with different requirements on the first beam.
  • the second power splitter 20 is configured to receive a second beam signal, and split the second beam signal into k2 second beam branch signals. Similarly, according to requirements on a transmitted second beam, an equal power splitter or an unequal power splitter may be selected as the second power splitter 20.
  • the first phase-shift network 60 performs phase-shift processing on the m first beam branch signals, to obtain M first beam branch phase-shifted signals, where the M first beam phase-shifted signals all have different phases.
  • phase shifters and the power splitter are cascaded on the first phase-shift network 60.
  • 62 is a phase shifter
  • 61 is a one-to-two power splitter.
  • the first phase-shift network shown in FIG. 2 can also obtain M first beam branch phase-shifted signals.
  • the signal multiplexing network 30 has L input ends, and the L input ends are divided into two parts, where in the first part, L1 input ends receive k1 first beam branch signals, and in the second part, L2 input ends receive k2 second beam branch signals.
  • L is less than or equal to K
  • L1+L2 is less than or equal to L.
  • the signal multiplexing network 30 plays a role of performing signal multiplexing and phase-shift processing on the k1 first beam branch signals and the k2 second beam branch signals, to obtain K multiplexed signals, where each multiplexed signal includes a first beam branch signal and a second beam branch signal, and different multiplexed signals have different phases.
  • a signal multiplexing network 30 includes a Butler matrix 32 consisting of multiple phase shifters 31 and one 3DB bridge, where at each input end of the Butler matrix 32, one phase shifter 31 may be disposed or no phase shifter is disposed as required, and at each output end of the Butler matrix 32, one phase shifter 31 is disposed or no phase shifter is disposed as required; in addition, no phase shifter may be disposed at at least one output end.
  • the Butler matrix 32 may be a multi-input multi-output network.
  • the multiplexing antenna array 40 includes K multiplexing antenna elements, where the K multiplexing antenna elements are arranged in a straight line, and each multiplexing antenna element is connected to one output end of the signal multiplexing network 30, to transmit a multiplexed signal that is output by the signal multiplexing network 30.
  • the first antenna array 50 includes M first antenna elements, where the M first antenna elements are located with the K multiplexing antennas in a straight line, and the M first antenna elements are located at one end of the K multiplexing antenna elements.
  • Each first antenna element is connected to one output end on the first phase-shift network 60, to transmit a first beam branch phase-shifted signal that is output by the first phase-shift network 60.
  • the second beam branch signals of the K multiplexed signals transmitted by the multiplexing antenna array 40 form a second beam
  • the first beam branch signals of the K multiplexed signals transmitted by the multiplexing antenna array 40 and the M first beam branch phase-shifted signals transmitted by the first antenna array 60 jointly form a first beam
  • transmit directions of the first beam and the second beam formed by means of the transmitting are different.
  • the antenna provided in this embodiment of the present application can also receive a beam.
  • the K multiplexing antenna elements in the multiplexing antenna array 40 can also receive a target beam, and the signal multiplexing network 30 performs splitting and phase shifting on the received target beam to obtain k1 third beam branch signals and k2 fourth beam branch signals.
  • the first antenna array 50 receives a target beam, and the M first antenna elements perform phase shifting on the received target beam to obtain m third beam branch signals.
  • the first power splitter 10 combines the k1+m third beam branch signals together to form a third beam signal; and the second power splitter 20 combines the k2 fourth beam branch signals together to form a fourth beam signal.
  • the first beam is first split into k1+m first beam branch signals, and the second beam is split into k2 second beam branch signals; then phase shifting is performed on the k1 first beam branch signals by using a first phase-shift network, signal multiplexing and phase-shift processing are performed on the k1 first beam branch signals and the k2 second beam branch signals by using a signal multiplexing network, to obtain K multiplexed signals, M first beam branch phase-shifted signals are transmitted by using a first antenna array 50, and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted by using a multiplexing antenna array 40; after being transmitted, the K multiplexed signals form a second beam, and the K multiplexed signals and the M first beam branch phase-shifted signals jointly form a first beam.
  • Sizes of branch signals that are obtained by means of splitting by using the first power splitter and the second power splitter and phase shifts of the branch signals and multiplexed signals on which the phase shifting is performed are controlled; in this way, the first beam and the second beam that are finally obtained may vary in gains, downtilt angles, and vertical-plane beam widths.
  • the antenna provided in this embodiment of the present application can allow that some antenna elements are multiplexed for two different beams, and the formed two beams may vary in downtilt angles by adjusting sizes and phases of branch signals of the beam signals, so that the two beams have different directions, and consequently coverage areas are different and do not overlap. Therefore, the antenna can increase system capacity without increasing an antenna volume.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of another antenna according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • the first antenna array and the multiplexing antenna array are viewed as a whole, merely some antenna elements of the antenna arrays are multiplexed, and all antenna elements that transmit the second beam and some antenna elements that transmit the first beam are multiplexed. In this embodiment of the present application, some antenna elements that transmit the second beam and some antenna elements that transmit the first beam may be also multiplexed, to form a new multiplexing solution. As shown in FIG. 4 , the antenna may further include: a second antenna array 90 and a second phase-shift network 100.
  • the second power splitter 20 splits the second beam signal into k2+n second beam branch signals.
  • sizes of the k2 second beam branch signals and sizes of the n second beam branch signals may be set according to requirements on a second beam.
  • the second phase-shift network 100 performs phase-shift processing on the n second beam branch signals, to obtain N second beam branch phase-shifted signals, where the N second beam phase-shifted signals all have different phases, n is less than or equal to N, and N is less than M. That is, on the whole, a quantity of antenna elements that generate the second beam is less than a quantity of antenna elements that form the first beam.
  • the second phase-shift network when n is equal to N, may consist of at least N-1 phase shifters; and when n is less than N, the second phase-shift network may consist of at least N-1 phase shifters and at least one power splitter that are cascaded.
  • the first phase-shift network 60 when n is equal to N, the second phase-shift network may consist of at least N-1 phase shifters; and when n is less than N, the second phase-shift network may consist of at least N-1 phase shifters and at least one power splitter that are cascaded.
  • the second antenna array 90 includes N second antenna elements, where the N second antenna elements are located with the first antenna elements and the multiplexing antenna elements in a straight line; in addition, the first antenna array 50 and the second antenna array 90 are located at two ends of the multiplexing antenna array 40.
  • the second antenna array 90 is configured to transmit the N second beam branch phase-shifted signals obtained after the phase shifting.
  • the antenna can increase system capacity without increasing an antenna volume.
  • the solution only needs to set sizes of branch signals of the first power splitter and the second power splitter, and phase shifts of the branch signals on which the first phase-shift network, the second phase-shift network and the signal multiplexing network perform phase shifting, which is simple and convenient to implement, and has low system complexity.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an antenna in an application embodiment according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • the antenna includes an antenna module 16, two signal multiplexing networks, four power splitters, two first phase-shift networks, two second power splitters, two second phase-shift networks, two first transmit receive units, and two second transmit receive units, where: the antenna module uses an antenna array that has dual-polarized elements evenly arranged in a single column, a spacing between the elements is 108 mm, the antenna array includes two multiplexing antenna elements, 10 first antenna elements, and two second antenna elements, the two signal multiplexing networks are a principally-polarized signal multiplexing network 1 and a cross-polarized signal multiplexing network 2, the two first phase-shift networks are a first principally-polarized phase-shift network 5 and a first cross-polarized phase-shift network 6, the two first power splitters are 3 and 4, the two second power splitters are 7 and 8, the two second phase-shift networks are a second principally-polarized phase-shift network 9 and
  • the first power splitters 3 and 4 are one-to-seven unequal power splitters
  • the second power splitters 7 and 8 are one-to-three unequal power splitters.
  • the principally-polarized signal multiplexing network 1 and the cross-polarized signal multiplexing network 2 consists of one 3DB bridge and two phase shifters each.
  • the first principally-polarized phase-shift network 5 and the first cross-polarized phase-shift network 6 have similar structures, and each is formed by two layers of 10 phase shifters and one layer of one-to-two equal power splitters that are cascaded, so that a first beam is characterized in that a downtilt angle is adjustable, ranging from 0 degrees to 12 degrees.
  • a downtilt angle of the first beam is 9 degrees
  • amplitude and phase features of antenna elements 1 to 12 are shown in Table 1.
  • an element refers to an antenna element
  • a first beam branch signal refers to a first beam branch signal transmitted by an antenna element.
  • the second principally-polarized phase-shift network 9 and the second cross-polarized phase-shift network 11 have similar structures, and each consists of two phase shifters, so that a second beam is characterized in that a downtilt angle is 22 degrees.
  • Amplitude and phase features of antenna elements 11 to 14 are shown in Table 2. In the table, an element refers to an antenna element, and a second beam branch signal refers to a second beam branch signal transmitted by an antenna element.
  • the two first transmit receive units 12 and 13 have a transmit power of 45 dBm each, and the two second transmit receive units 14 and 15 have a transmit power of 39 dBm each.
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram of a direction of a split beam corresponding to an existing AAS solution.
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram of a coverage effect corresponding to the existing AAS solution.
  • AAS Active Antenna System, active antenna system
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram of beam comparison of an antenna test provided in FIG. 5 according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram of a coverage effect of the antenna test provided in FIG. 5 according to an embodiment of the present application.
  • Two curves shown in FIG. 7 represent strength of received signals that changes with distances. If the curves are closer, it indicates that interference between two beams is stronger, an SINR is lower, and therefore throughput is lower. It can be seen from FIG. 8 that compared with curves of distances and strength of received signals in the existing solution of FIG. 7 , according to the solution provided in this embodiment of the present application, in a near-end area 0 meters to 100 meters away from an antenna, a difference between a first beam and a second beam in signal strength is significantly greater than that in the existing solution, and therefore, an SINR of the area is increased, and system capacity is also improved accordingly.
  • a difference between the first beam and the second beam in signal strength is also significantly greater than that in the existing solution, and therefore, an SINR of the area is increased, and the system capacity is also improved accordingly.
  • the present application may be applicable to various general-purpose or special-purpose computing system environments or configurations.
  • a personal computer a server computer, a handheld device or a portable device, a flat panel device, a multi-processor system, a microprocessor-based system, a set-top box, a programmable consumer digital device, a network PC, a minicomputer, a mainframe computer, and a distributed computing environment including any one of the foregoing systems or devices.
  • the present application can be described in the general context of executable computer instructions executed by a computer, for example, a program module.
  • the program module includes a routine, program, object, component, data structure, and the like for executing a particular task or implementing a particular abstract data type.
  • the present application may be also practiced in distributed computing environments in which tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are connected by using a communications network.
  • program modules may be located in local and remote computer storage media including storage devices.
  • an embodiment of the present application further provides a method for transmitting an antenna signal. As shown in FIG. 10 , the method may include:
  • the M first beam branch signals are transmitted by using a first antenna array that includes M first antenna elements
  • the K multiplexed signals are transmitted by using a multiplexing antenna array that includes K multiplexing antenna elements distributed with the M first antenna elements in a straight line, where: k1, k2, M, and K are all positive integers, M is greater than or equal to 1, m is less than or equal to M, k1 is greater than or equal to 1, k2 is greater than or equal to 1, kl+k2 is less than or equal to L, and L is less than or equal to K.
  • a first beam is formed after the M first beam branch signals and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted, and a second beam is formed after the K multiplexed signals are transmitted, where transmit directions of the first beam and the second beam are different.
  • a multiplexing antenna array may be shared for transmitting the first beam and the second beam; in addition, the first beam and the second beam that are finally obtained may vary in gains, downtilt angles, and vertical-plane beam widths. Therefore, the method for transmitting an antenna signal can increase system capacity without increasing an antenna volume. In addition, it only needs to control sizes of branch signals of the first beam and the second beam and phase shifts of the branch signals of the first beam and the second beam on which phase shifting is performed, which is simple and convenient to implement, and has low system complexity.
  • the method further includes:
  • the N second beam branch signals are transmitted by using a second antenna array that includes N second antenna elements distributed with the M first antenna elements and the K multiplexing antenna elements in a straight line, and the second beam is formed after the N second beam branch signals and the K multiplexed signals are transmitted.
  • an embodiment of the present application further provides a method for receiving an antenna signal. As shown in FIG. 12 , the method may include:
  • the method may further include:
  • the computer software product is stored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present application.
  • the foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.

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