Virtual Drives in Vehicular Communication

Author

Reichardt, Lars ; Pontes, Juan ; Wiesbeck, Werner ; Zwick, Thomas

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The fast and economical prototype development of (vehicular) antenna systems requires the employment of feasible simulators. This article describes such a simulator for vehicular communications. The channel model used is based on stochastically or deterministically generated 3-D environments that include a realistic traffic model. The wave propagation is calculated with a fully polarimetric ray tracing tool. In addition, an antenna synthesis method for predefined time-variant communication scenarios has been proposed. The major emphasis has been put on MIMO systems, but in general, the algorithm can be employed for multiple-element as well as single-element antenna systems.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antennas; radiowave propagation; telecommunication traffic; MIMO system; antenna synthesis method; polarimetric ray tracing tool; realistic traffic model; single-element antenna system; time-variant communication scenario; vehicular communication; virtual drives; wave propagation; Channel models; Intelligent vehicles; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1556-6072

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MVT.2011.940802

Filename

5770986