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2014 (English)In: 2014 8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (EUCAP), 2014, p. 2015-2019Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
The performance of wireless data transmission to mobile vehicles is improved if channel state information is available at the transmitter but movement of vehicles causes outdating of channel estimates. The concept of a predictor antenna has recently been proposed, where an antenna is placed in front of other antennas on the roof of the vehicle to sense the radio environment in advance. This can comparatively provide an order-of-magnitude improvement in channel prediction performance. A potential problem with this idea is that closely placed antennas will experience mutual electromagnetic couplings. These may reduce the efficiency of the predictor antenna concept if they are not taken into account. In this paper, we discuss about how to treat the forgoing issue and eventually evaluate a promising candidate on measured channels. We argue that only open-circuit voltage method would be realistic for the present application. The usefulness of the proposed decoupling method is demonstrated on field measurements obtained in downtown Dresden, Germany. We also partly address the sensitivity of the open-circuit decoupling method to the accuracy of the utilized network parameters.
Series
Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, ISSN 2164-3342
Keywords
Multi-element antennas; channel state prediction; moving relays; multipath measurement
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Electrical Engineering with specialization in Signal Processing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-224256 (URN)978-88-907018-4-9 (ISBN)
Conference
The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), to be held at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 6-11 April 2014.
Note
This paper has been presented as a poster on: the 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 6-11 April 2014, and will appear in the proceedings
2014-05-082014-05-072015-11-06Bibliographically approved