August 23, 2012

How to feed data-hungry mobile devices? Use more antennas




Multi-antenna technology could help keep pace with voracious user demand

HOUSTON — (Aug. 23, 2012) — Researchers from Rice University today unveiled a new multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hungry smartphones and tablets. The technology aims to dramatically increase network capacity by allowing cell towers to simultaneously beam signals to more than a dozen customers on the same frequency.