Patent ID: 9634775
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A method for configuring a reconfigurable antenna system, said antenna system comprising a plurality of antenna elements that can configured according to a plurality of different antenna configurations, the method comprising: (a) selecting one or more groups of antenna configurations in a reference set of antenna configurations; (b) selecting one or more antenna configurations to be tested for each group of antenna configurations, which has been selected at the previous step (a) of selecting one or more groups of antenna configurations; (c) evaluating the radiating performance of said reconfigurable antenna system for each antenna configuration, which has been selected at the previous step (b) selecting one or more groups of antenna configurations to be tested, the radiating performance of said reconfigurable antenna system being evaluated on the base of estimation values that are calculated during one or more testing sessions of said reconfigurable antenna system, wherein evaluating the radiating performance comprises (d) selecting the optimal antenna configuration, for which said reconfigurable antenna system has provided the best radiating performance during said testing sessions; (e) if the group of antenna configurations, to which said optimal antenna configuration belongs, comprises only said optimal antenna configuration, configuring said antenna elements according to said optimal antenna configuration; (f) if the group of antenna configurations, to which said optimal antenna configuration belongs, comprises a plurality of antenna configurations, selecting said group of antenna configuration as new reference set of antenna configurations; and (g) repeating one or more of the previous steps (a, b, c, d, e, f) for said new reference set of antenna configurations.