A TDD-TCDMA radio interface at millimetre waves for ITS applications

Author

Chiani, Marco ; Verdone, Roberto

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica Inf. e Sistemistica, Bologna Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

770

Abstract

Within the context of third generation personal communication systems (UMTS, Universal Mobile Telecommunication System, or IMT-2000, International Mobile Telecommunications), a lot of research was carried out in the last years to design suitable interfaces for mobile and personal communications. In this paper the possibility to use for ITS (intelligent transportation systems) applications, such as inter-vehicle communications in highway environments, the TDD-TCDMA radio interface standardised within the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standard Institute) for third generation personal communication systems (UTRA, the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access), is investigated. More precisely, a frequency shifted version of the TDD-TCDMA interface at 60 GHz is evaluated, since this frequency band was formerly considered for ITS applications. By estimating the channel characteristics through ray tracing, and evaluating the bit error rate by means of a link-level simulation approach, we show that the TDD-TCDMA concept developed within UTRA is feasible for the application under consideration

Keywords

automated highways; code division multiple access; digital simulation; millimetre wave propagation; network interfaces; personal communication networks; radio access networks; radio links; ray tracing; standardisation; time division multiple access; 60 GHz; EHF; ETSI; European Telecommunications Standard Institute; IMT-2000; ITS applications; International Mobile Telecommunications; TDD-TCDMA radio interface; UMTS; UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access; UTRA; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; bit error rate; channel characteristics estimation; frequency band; highway environments; intelligent transportation systems; inter-vehicle communications; link-level simulation; millimetre waves; ray tracing; standardisation; third generation personal communication systems; Broadband antennas; Character generation; Costs; Europe; Frequency; Intelligent transportation systems; Road safety; Road transportation; Telecommunication standards; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.798433

Filename

798433