Conception and application of smart antennas for transport applications

This paper presents, in a first time, an original method of smart antenna design, based on an antenna array driven by vector modulators. Different radiation patterns are measured to validate the method. In a second time, we show the interest in using such antenna array in transports domain. Thus, we...

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Published in2009 9th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems Telecommunications, (ITST) pp. 45 - 50
Main Authors Combeau, P., Paillot, J.M., Vauzelle, R., Cordeau, D., Pousset, Y., Hamidouche, W.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2009
Subjects
Antenna arrays
Antenna measurements
Antenna radiation patterns
Antennas and propagation
Antennas and Propagation for ITS
Bit error rate
channel behavior
digital communication
Dipole antennas
Electromagnetic propagation
Energy consumption
intelligent transport
OFDM
Ray tracing
Smart antennas
waves propagation modeling
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Summary:This paper presents, in a first time, an original method of smart antenna design, based on an antenna array driven by vector modulators. Different radiation patterns are measured to validate the method. In a second time, we show the interest in using such antenna array in transports domain. Thus, we first integrate these radiation patterns into a 3D propagation simulator based on Ray-Tracing, to achieve deterministic simulations of wave propagation in site specific environment (dense urban, urban, suburban). Then, we perform some simulations of an OFDM communication on a mobility scenario in a realistic urban environment taking into account antennas and channel behavior. Significant gains in terms of power consumption, electromagnetic de-pollution and Bit Error Rate (BER) are provided with smart antennas in comparison with dipole antenna.
ISBN:1424453461
9781424453467
DOI:10.1109/ITST.2009.5399384