TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of On-PCB location of radiating element on the performance of mobile terminal GPS antennas in multipath environment
AU - Ur Rehman, M.
AU - Chen, X.
AU - Parini, C. G.
AU - Ying, Z.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Portable GPS mobile terminal antennas suffer from multipath effects. Environmental objects like vehicles, buildings, trees and ground plane (earth) make incident radio waves to reflect, diffract and scatter. Free space antenna parameters therefore, do not give an accurate account of antenna performance in real working scenarios. Statistical models are considered to be an efficient way to replicate the multipath environment and analyse the antenna operation in such environment. A novel statistical approach for characterisation of the environmental factors on the GPS antennas has been proposed by Ur Rehman et al. [1], [2]. This method models the open field multipath environment for the GPS operation and defines the antenna performance in terms of GPS Mean Effective Gain (MEGGPS), GPS Angle of Arrival (AoAGPS) distribution and GPS Coverage Efficiency (c). Position of radiating element on PCB/ground plane can affect the antenna performance in small terminal GPS antennas. This paper investigates the operation of IFA and DRA antennas in GPS multipath environment considering effects of different locations of the radiating element on the PCB/ground plane.
AB - Portable GPS mobile terminal antennas suffer from multipath effects. Environmental objects like vehicles, buildings, trees and ground plane (earth) make incident radio waves to reflect, diffract and scatter. Free space antenna parameters therefore, do not give an accurate account of antenna performance in real working scenarios. Statistical models are considered to be an efficient way to replicate the multipath environment and analyse the antenna operation in such environment. A novel statistical approach for characterisation of the environmental factors on the GPS antennas has been proposed by Ur Rehman et al. [1], [2]. This method models the open field multipath environment for the GPS operation and defines the antenna performance in terms of GPS Mean Effective Gain (MEGGPS), GPS Angle of Arrival (AoAGPS) distribution and GPS Coverage Efficiency (c). Position of radiating element on PCB/ground plane can affect the antenna performance in small terminal GPS antennas. This paper investigates the operation of IFA and DRA antennas in GPS multipath environment considering effects of different locations of the radiating element on the PCB/ground plane.
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M3 - Article in proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:79959664202
SN - 9788882020743
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
SP - 410
EP - 414
BT - Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
T2 - 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011
Y2 - 10 April 2011 through 15 April 2011
ER -