| 摘要 |
<p>An antenna monitor collects statistics about the received signal strengths of each antenna in a cooperating antenna array over long periods of time. In cellular telephone base station applications for a base station using an array of antenna elements to obtain spatial diversity, samples of the received signal strength are taken during particular times whenever an active mobile subscriber is operating in the area. Periodically, such samples are averaged and added to a running total that is maintained in a long-term accumulator for each antenna. The accumulated totals are then compared after a statistically sufficient number of samples have been collected and averaged. Faulty antennas, including broken ones and ones with bad connections, will be revealed by those corresponding signal paths having relatively low accumulated totals. Given long enough collection periods, the spatial diversity of the antennas in the array will have only a minimal impact on favoring one antenna over another.</p> |
