Effectiveness of four-branch height and polarization diversity configuration for street microcell

Abstract

This paper proposes a four-branch height and polarization diversity configuration that achieves almost constant received signal power over any terminal inclination in a street microcell communication environment. An example of the four-branch diversity antenna is also presented. Our measurement results in cell-size comparison among height diversity, polarization diversity, and height and polarization diversity configurations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed diversity configuration.