SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS OF PERIPHERAL BASE STATIONS OF A TERRESTRIAL NETWORK TO ALLOW REDUCED INTERFERENCE

摘要

A wireless communications system may include a terrestrial network including a plurality of base stations providing communications service for radioterminals over a terrestrial network coverage area. The plurality of base stations may include interior base stations providing communications service for radioterminals in an interior portion of the terrestrial network coverage area and peripheral base stations providing communications service for radioterminals at a peripheral portion of the terrestrial network coverage area. At least one of the peripheral base stations provides transmissions directed toward an interior portion of the terrestrial network coverage area with greater power than transmissions directed away from interior portions of the terrestrial network coverage area. Related methods are also discussed.