Printed antenna for on-board unit of a DSRC system

Author

Varum, Tiago ; Matos, João Nuno ; Pinho, Pedro

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Univ. de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

460

Abstract

Vehicular communications, among vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructures are based on wireless communication technology known as dedicated short range communications (DSRC), which are in great development with the aim of reduce the traffic problems and improve the road safety. This study is based on the development of a solution to an antenna to be used in the mobile module, usually named On-Board Unit (OBU). The antenna should have characteristics that meet the requirements for new DSRC at 5.9 GHz band in Europe. The proposed antenna is a printed monopole with a reduced size that presents an omnidirectional radiation pattern in the horizontal plane and allows communications independently of the direction of vehicles. The wide bandwidth obtained is to enough to encompass the other band for DSRC communications used in Europe, at 5.8 GHz, and become more tolerant to manufacturing problems.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; mobile communication; monopole antennas; omnidirectional antennas; DSRC system; Europe; OBU; dedicated short range communications; frequency 5.8 GHz; frequency 5.9 GHz; mobile module; omnidirectional radiation pattern; onboard unit; printed monopole antenna; road safety; vehicular communications; wireless communication technology; Antenna radiation patterns; Broadband antennas; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antennas; Polarization; Vehicles; dedicated short range communications; on-board unit; printed antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996743

Filename

5996743