Ray-Tracing in a Virtual Drive for Mobile Communications
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Sturm, Christian; Wiesbeck, Werner (Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), University of Karlsruhe (TH), Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany)
Abstract:
The availability of mobile communications from and to vehicles is becoming a major criterion for the market success of future cars. Presently the required antenna installations are tested by road driving, a time and money consuming adventure. This paper proposes a Virtual Drive, by which not only the test but also an optimization of the car-integrated antenna systems can be performed. This is achieved by electromagnetically modeling the complete scene, i.e. driving the electromagnetically modeled antennas on the car through a coverage predicted by Ray-tracing. The obtained results are the complex output voltages at the different antennas, which allow for evaluating the antenna system suitability for communications applications with Diversity and MIMO techniques.