Performance evaluation of SISO, SIMO and MIMO antenna systems for car-to-car communications in urban environments

Author

Reichardt, Lars ; Sturm, Christian ; Zwick, Thomas

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech. und Elektron., Univ. of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

56

Abstract

This paper evaluates single and multiple antenna systems in realistic car-to-car communication channels. With a three-dimensional ray-tracing simulation tool the narrow-band channel characteristics are determined for various antenna positions and numbers of antennas. The results clearly show the advantage of multiple antenna systems. Suitable antenna positions are determined that allow for optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio and the channel capacity.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; channel capacity; mobile antennas; mobile communication; performance evaluation; ray tracing; MIMO antenna systems; SIMO antenna systems; SISO antenna systems; car-to-car communications; channel capacity; multiple antenna systems; signal-to-noise ratio; Antennas and propagation; Automobiles; Channel capacity; Communication channels; MIMO; Mobile communication; Ray tracing; Road vehicles; Traffic control; Vehicle dynamics; Car-to-Car Communication; MIMO; Ray-tracing; SIMO; SISO; Wave Propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transport Systems Telecommunications,(ITST),2009 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lille

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5346-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5347-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2009.5399385

Filename

5399385