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In this contribution, the prototype of an energy efficient RF front-end combined to a miniaturized highly efficient antenna system is presented. This demonstrator is designed for LTE small cell base station applications and can address both LTE band 7 & 20. It supports carrier aggregation (CA) for capacity network improvement and is compatible with inter-band CA as well as contiguous and non-contiguous intra-band CA. The measurement results show an energy consumption saving of around 30 % and a size reduction factor of 3 for the antenna system compared to regular base station antennas. The proposed design demonstrates the possibility of increasing the energy efficiency as well as the level of integration of a small cell base station despite the use of new technology enablers such as CA technique.
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The present work was carried out within the framework of Celtic-Plus SHARING project.
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Jouanlanne, C., Delaveaud, C., Fernández, Y., Sánchez, A. (2016). A Reconfigurable Dual Band LTE Small Cell RF Front-end/Antenna System to Support Carrier Aggregation. In: Noguet, D., Moessner, K., Palicot, J. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_59
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