Rice University researchers debuted Argos, a multi-antenna technology they claim...
Rice University researchers debuted Argos, a multi-antenna technology they claim will help wireless carriers cope with the rising data demands from the users of smartphones and tablets. Researchers presented the Argos prototypes Thursday at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiCom…
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2012 conference in Istanbul. The Argos technology would increase network capacity by allowing cell towers to simultaneously beam signals to more than a dozen customers on the same frequency, Rice said in a news release. “The technical term for this is multi-user beamforming,” Argos project co-leader Lin Zhong said. “The key is to have many antennas, because the more antennas you have, the more users you can serve” (http://xrl.us/bnmxhf).