Analysis of Wi-Fi coverage in light rail train using parallel higher order method of moments

Author

Chi-Hou Chio ; Sio-Weng Ting ; Xunwang Zhao ; Sarkar, Tapan K. ; Yu Zhang ; Kam-Weng Tam

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

628

Lastpage

630

Abstract

Full wave simulations of light rail transit cabin with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi antennas are performed to analyze the signal quality inside the cabin from different access point antenna configurations by using electric field distribution analysis. Since the vehicle is electrically large with a size of 92λ, method of moments with higher-order basis functions and parallel computation is used for accurate and efficient computation. Two types of antennas are used and compared, including an omni-directional monopole antenna and a directional suspended plate antenna. The results of the simulations are analyzed and it is shown that the directional antenna can provide a more homogeneous field distribution.

Keywords

UHF antennas; directive antennas; light rail systems; method of moments; monopole antennas; omnidirectional antennas; wireless LAN; Wi-Fi antennas; Wi-Fi coverage; access point antenna configurations; directional suspended plate antenna; electric field distribution analysis; frequency 2.4 GHz; full wave simulations; higher-order basis functions; light rail transit cabin; method of moments; omnidirectional monopole antenna; parallel computation; signal quality; Antenna radiation patterns; Computational modeling; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Vehicles; MoM; Wi-Fi; electrically large simulation; higher-order basis functions; light rail transit; parallel computation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1330-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1331-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2012.6421686

Filename

6421686