Antenna research and technology for the intelligent car (ARTIC)

Mobile-to-mobile communication, direct, not via base stations, is an upcoming challenge. Different as in mobile-to-mobile communications for Car-to-Car (C2C) or Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication no base stations exist. The transmitter as well as the receiver is moving and the propagation paths change continuously. No high gain directive antennas, radiating several watts (of power) are part of the system, but vehicle integrated antennas with medium or low gain. And, the most important difference to familiar mobile communications is that the communication partners are not a priori known to be addressed. According to the present regulations and specifications the frequency will be around 5.9 GHz for all types of vehicles worldwide. This completely new communication environment directly requests the coordinated dissemination of knowledge and information for a large community in communications, RF-engineering and automotive engineering.