Smart Repeater In 5G and the future

Figure 3 shows the effect of adding a smart repeater transmitting at 45 dBm power. It is immediately obvious that some of the area in the lower portion of the coverage map is now showing solid white and yellow signal intensity. Figure 4 shows the effect of adding a smart repeater transmitting at 55 dBm. The increase of 10 dB in power almost enable most of the lower portion of the coverage map for good signal reception. This is an important tradeoff between adding a second smart repeater or simply increase the power of the first smart repeater. Fixed and operational cost usually governed the deployment strategy as site preparation and long-term operation cost may dictate one solution over the other.

Figure 3: Heat map showing the signal intensity level when a 45 dBm smart repeater is working in conjunction with a 55 dBm base station.
Figure 4: Heat map showing the signal intensity level when a 55 dBm smart repeater is working in conjunction with a 55 dBm base station.