Characterisation of System Performance of GPS Antennas in Mobile Terminals Including Environmental Effects
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Rehman, M. Ur; Gao, Y.; Chen, X.; Parini, C. G. (Queen Mary University of London, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK)
Ying, Z. (Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sweden)
Abstract:
Incident waves on a GPS antenna on mobile terminals suffer from multipath effects due to reflection, diffraction and scattering from environmental objects including buildings, trees, vehicles and ground. A traditional electromagnetic approach to analyse the GPS antenna performance is therefore unable to give a correct account of the antenna working in a real multipath environment. A new technique to characterise these environmental effects on the GPS antenna is presented in this paper, defined by three parameters; GPS Mean Effective Gain (MEG GPS), GPS Angle of Arrival (AoA GPS) distribution and GPS Coverage Efficiency (η c).