Capacity measurement of multiple antenna systems for Car to Car communication

Author

Adhikari, Nischal ; Noghanian, Sima

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng. & Mines, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

603

Lastpage

604

Abstract

Channel capacity is an important parameter for any wireless system. In Car-to-Car (C2C) communication, the location of antennas on the car affects the capacity. To improve the capacity the concept of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and antenna location is studied experimentally. A channel sounding system using Software Defined Radio (SDR) was developed and used for measurement campaigns. The study was performed in low and high traffic environments. The results were compared for different antenna locations.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; channel capacity; mobile antennas; mobile radio; software radio; C2C communication; MIMO system; SDR; antenna location; car-to-car communication; channel capacity measurement; channel sounding system; high-traffic environment; low-traffic environment; multiple-antenna systems; multiple-input multiple-output system; software defined radio; wireless system; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Channel capacity; Computer aided software engineering; Educational institutions; MIMO; Receivers; C2C; Channel Capacity; MIMO; SDR; V2V;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904632

Filename

6904632