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Abstract

The present invention provides a communication node associated with a wireless network to communicate with a mobile device over a wireless medium across a plurality of mobile communication regions. The communication node comprises an antenna arrangement including a first, a second and a third antenna, wherein the first antenna is primarily associated with a first service coverage area of a first mobile communication region of the plurality of mobile communication regions, the second antenna is primarily associated with a second service coverage area of the first mobile communication region, and the third antenna is primarily associated with a third service coverage area of the first mobile communication region for combining diversity from the first, second and third antennas to fully communicate information to and from at least one of the first, second and third service coverage areas and to partially communicate information to and from at least two of the first, second and third service coverage areas. In one embodiment, a method may adapt a first, a second and a third antenna in a multi-sector antenna arrangement of a base station across cells by combining diversity from the first, second, and third antennas. Such antenna arrangement may reduce installation and alignment costs for a multi-sector antenna while increasing a receive sensitivity and decreasing a transmit power requirement because base station antennas are not deployed in diversity pairs rather are equally distributed.

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