4G Americas Press Release, July 15 2013

A white paper on MIMO and Smart Antennas for Mobile Broadband Systems has been published by the 3GPP Partner, 4G Americas.

With wireless traffic expected to grow over 10x in the next five years, the paper looks at "increasingly capable smart antenna solutions" as a vital companion to the call for more spectrum for LTE.

The 4G Americas white paper focuses on the following areas:

• Antenna Fundamentals
• MIMO with LTE
• Antenna Configurations for MIMO
• Performance of the Various Antenna Configurations
• Analysis of Antenna Configurations for 4X2 and 4X4 MIMO
• Antenna Array Calibration

MIMO and Smart Antennas for Mobile Broadband Systems, was written collaboratively by members of 4G Americas. A previous white paper published in 2012 offers more detail and pictorial information and may be downloaded at www.4gamericas.org.

About 4G Americas

4G Americas is an industry trade organization composed of leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers. The organization's mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for the deployment and adoption of the 3GPP family of technologies throughout the Americas. 4G Americas contributes to the successful commercial rollout of 3GPP mobile broadband technologies across the Americas and their place as the No. 1 technology family in the region.

The organization aims to develop the expansive wireless ecosystem of networks, devices, and applications enabled by GSM and its evolution to LTE-Advanced. 4G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with an office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas. More information is available at www.4gamericas.org.