Method and apparatus for base station diversity reception in a mobile communications system

摘要

The method involves use of a mobile radio base station which has a number (N) of omnidirectional antennas (1). Each antenna input is fed to a detector. The detector outputs are passed to an assessment circuit (3). The assessment circuit uses an adaptive algorithm to calculate the weighting required to optimise the received signal to noise ratio, and applies the weighting (W1..Wn) to each channel. The base station then receives the summed outputs of the signals.