Impact of Directional Receiving Antennas on Wireless Networks

TL;DR

This paper investigates how equipping user equipment with directional receiving antennas in LTE wireless networks can enhance signal quality, reduce interference, and improve overall network performance and quality of service.

Contribution

It provides an analytical expression for SINR with directional antennas and compares various scenarios to quantify performance improvements over omnidirectional antennas.

Findings

Directional antennas improve SINR and QoS.

Analytical model quantifies interference mitigation.

Scenario analysis demonstrates performance gains.

Abstract

We are interested in high data rates internet access, by the mean of LTE based wireless networks. In the aim to improve performance of wireless networks, we propose an approach focused on the use of UE equipped by directional receiving antennas. Indeed, these antennas allow to mitigate the interference and to improve the link budget. Therefore, the Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) can be improved, and consequently the performance and quality of service (QoS), too. We establish the analytical expression of the SINR reached by a user with directional antenna, whatever its location. This expression shows that directional antennas allow an improvement of the SINR, and to quantify it. We develop different scenarios to compare the use of directional antennas instead of omnidirectional ones. They allow to quantify the impact of directional antennas in terms of performance and QoS.