Active Dual Antenna Arrangement
An active dual-band antenna arrangement ( 100 ), comprising a plurality of antenna elements ( 4 ), each with a transceiver connected thereto, wherein two antenna arrays ( 1, 2 ) are provided for the two frequency bands (B 3, B 7 ), wherein a first antenna array ( 1 ) processes the transmit band of the first frequency band (B 3 ) and the receive frequency band of the second frequency band (B 7 ), and wherein a second antenna array ( 2 ) processes the transmit frequency band of the second frequency band (B 7 ) and the receive frequency band of the first frequency band (B 3 ).
1 . An active dual-band antenna arrangement, comprising
a plurality of antenna elements, wherein either each of the antenna elements is connected to a transceiver or several interconnected antenna elements are connected to a transceiver,
first and second antenna arrays for a first and second frequency band, respectively,
wherein the first antenna array processes a transmit band of the first frequency band and a receive frequency band of the second frequency band, and
wherein the second antenna array processes a transmit frequency band of the second frequency band and a receive frequency band of the first frequency band.
2 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the first and second antenna arrays are arranged vertically.
3 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the first and second antenna arrays are arranged vertically and wherein each antenna array is an 8-column×6-row array.
4 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 1 , wherein each of the transceivers of the antenna elements comprises a duplex unit that is set up for the purpose of separating an input channel and an output channel from one another.
5 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 2 , wherein each transceiver further comprises at least one filter and at least one amplifier.
6 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 5 , wherein the filter is an FBAR (Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) filter or a BAW (Bulk Acoustic Wave) filter or a SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) filter.
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9 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD (Frequency-Division Duplexing) massive MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) operation.
10 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 2 , wherein each of the transceivers comprises a duplex unit configured to separate an input channel and an output channel from one another.
11 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 3 , wherein each of the transceivers comprises a duplex unit configured to separate an input channel and an output channel from one another.
12 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 5 , wherein each transceiver further comprises at least one filter and at least one amplifier.
13 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 12 , wherein the filter is an FBAR (Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) filter or a BAW filter or a SAW filter.
14 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 11 , wherein each transceiver further comprises at least one filter and at least one amplifier.
15 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 14 , wherein the filter is an FBAR (Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator) filter or a BAW filter or a SAW filter.
16 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
17 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
18 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
19 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 10 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
20 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 11 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
21 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 12 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.
22 . The antenna arrangement as set forth in claim 13 , wherein the antenna arrangement comprises a preprocessing unit that is set up for the purpose of carrying out an FDD massive MIMO operation.