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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
May. 20, 2011
Applicant:
Siegfried Klein, Stuttgart, DE;
Inventor:
Siegfried Klein, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, of operating a base station () of a cellular communications network, wherein said base station () comprises at least one antenna (), said method comprising a step of adjusting () a tilt angle (θ) of the antenna () and/or of a beam pattern of said antenna, wherein said step of adjusting () is performed depending on a quality measure which characterizer the quality of a signal transmission associated with said antenna ().