Title :
Environment effects and system performance characterisation of GPS antennas for mobile terminals
Author :
Ur Rehman, Masood ; Gao, Yuan ; Chen, Xia ; Parini, Clive ; Ying, Zhoufeng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Queen Mary, Univ. of London, London
Abstract :
The GPS antenna on mobile terminals suffers from multipath effects owing to reflection, diffraction and scattering of the incident wave in a radio environment. A traditional approach to evaluate the GPS antenna performance in a real multipath environment is therefore insufficient. Presented is a new technique to characterise these environmental effects and the system performance of GPS antennas on mobile terminals.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; electromagnetic wave diffraction; electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave scattering; mobile antennas; mobile radio; GPS antenna; Global Positioning System; environmental effects; incident wave diffraction; incident wave reflection; incident wave scattering; mobile terminal; multipath effects; radio environment;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20092772
