| | 1 | = Argos: Practical Many-Antenna Base Stations = |
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| | 3 | 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. |
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| | 5 | Details about the new technology, dubbed Argos, were presented today at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiCom 2012 wireless research conference in Istanbul. Argos is under development by researchers from Rice, Bell Labs and Yale University. A prototype built at Rice this year uses 64 antennas to allow a single wireless base station to communicate directly to 15 users simultaneously with narrowly focused directional beams. |
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| | 7 | Read [http://news.rice.edu/2012/08/23/how-to-feed-data-hungry-mobile-devices-use-more-antennas/ the full story] from Rice News. |
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| | 9 | Learn more about the Argos project at [http://argos.rice.edu/ argos.rice.edu]. |
