A front end to vehicular communications

This paper address the design of a front end for vehicular communications in the 5.9 GHz frequency band. The front end is being developed in accordance with the IEEE 8022.11p standard, which defines the physical layer for WLAN vehicular communications. Also presented are some simulations results, which demonstrate that 802.11p requirements are met. As the work is ongoing there are no practical results. At this time the development of front end is on the PCB design phase. The front encompasses all circuits between antenna and baseband stage, for transmission and reception. The front end will subsequently be integrated into a laboratory prototype used for demonstration purposes.