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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 6, June 1998

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Effectiveness of Four-Branch Height and Polarization Diversity Configuration for Street Microcell

Keizo Cho, Member, IEEE, Toshikazu Hori, Member, IEEE, and Kenichi Kagoshima, Member, IEEE

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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.

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