• DocumentCode
    974007
  • Title

    Evaluation of Vehicle Penetration Loss at Wireless Communication Frequencies

  • Author

    Tanghe, Emmeric ; Joseph, Wout ; Verloock, Leen ; Martens, Luc

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol. (IBBT-Ugent/INTEC), Ghent Univ., Ghent
  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2036
  • Lastpage
    2041
  • Abstract
    Measurements and simulations of the vehicle penetration loss (VPL) at 600, 900, 1800, and 2400 MHz are presented. The measured average penetration loss varies from 3.2 to 23.8 dB, depending on frequency, illuminated vehicle side, and in-vehicle antenna orientation. VPL tends to follow a lognormal distribution. Reported penetration loss values are compared to previous measurements from the literature.
  • Keywords
    log normal distribution; mobile antennas; mobile radio; frequency 1800 MHz; frequency 2400 MHz; frequency 600 MHz; frequency 900 MHz; in-vehicle antenna; lognormal distribution; vehicle penetration loss; wireless communication frequencies; Antenna orientation; Vehicle penetration loss; antenna orientation; coverage; measurement; simulation; vehicle penetration loss (VPL);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9545
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TVT.2007.912164
  • Filename
    4382920