A measurement method for evaluation of car-to-infrastructure radio channels

Author

Meuleners, Michael ; Quack, Daniel ; Degen, Christoph

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Hochschule Niederrhein - Univ. of Appl. Sci., Krefeld, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

1055

Lastpage

1059

Abstract

In this paper we present a measurement technique for evaluation of antenna systems in car-to-infrastructure communication systems. The focus of this work was on small and cheap measurement devices that can be placed at different positions in a car or motorbike. With the new measurement process multiple antennas were evaluated simultaneously using a bandwidth of 20 MHz. That is, propagation characteristics for broadband communication like, for example, LTE communication can be analyzed. Antennas at several positions of a car were examined separately as well as by using maximum ratio combining.

Keywords

antenna testing; radiowave propagation; wireless channels; antenna systems; bandwidth 20 MHz; broadband communication; car-to-infrastructure communication systems; car-to-infrastructure radio channels; cheap measurement devices; maximum ratio combining; propagation characteristics; Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Frequency measurement; Radio transmitters; Receiving antennas; car-to-infrastructure communication; measurement; propagation; radio channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901949

Filename

6901949