Intra Vehicular Wireless Channel Measurements

Ales Prokes, Aniruddha Chandra, Christoph Mecklenbrauker, Jiri Blumenstein, Josef Vychodil, Thomas Zemen, Tomas Mikulasek, Tomáš Mikulášek

2015

Abstract

Intra vehicular communication is an emerging field of research due to its potential applications in safety of passengers, navigational and localization aids for driver, and multimedia infotainment. This chapter describes the wireless channel sounding activities performed inside a typical passenger car under the SoMoPro and the GACR projects. Three different channel sounding architectures are developed for the purpose, namely direct pulse based sounding, frequency domain sounding and pseudo noise sequence based time domain sounding. Experiments with different placements of transmitter and receiver antennas inside the car were performed for both the ultra-wide-band and millimeter wave band. Channel transfer functions and impulse responses extracted from all these measurement campaigns are utilized to construct several deterministic and statistical channel models. The models are useful for designing intra vehicular wireless links and for devising novel vehicular localization algorithms.

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Zemen T., Mecklenbrauker C., Prokes A., Mikulasek T., Blumenstein J., Vychodil J., Chandra A. and Mikulášek T. (2015). Intra Vehicular Wireless Channel Measurements . In European Project Space on Information and Communication Systems - EPS Angers, ISBN 978-989-758-155-7, pages 3-27. DOI: 10.5220/0006164500030027


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@conference{eps angers15,
author={Thomas Zemen and Christoph Mecklenbrauker and Ales Prokes and Tomas Mikulasek and Jiri Blumenstein and Josef Vychodil and Aniruddha Chandra and Tomáš Mikulášek},
title={Intra Vehicular Wireless Channel Measurements},
booktitle={European Project Space on Information and Communication Systems - EPS Angers,},
year={2015},
pages={3-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006164500030027},
isbn={978-989-758-155-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - European Project Space on Information and Communication Systems - EPS Angers,
TI - Intra Vehicular Wireless Channel Measurements
SN - 978-989-758-155-7
AU - Zemen T.
AU - Mecklenbrauker C.
AU - Prokes A.
AU - Mikulasek T.
AU - Blumenstein J.
AU - Vychodil J.
AU - Chandra A.
AU - Mikulášek T.
PY - 2015
SP - 3
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0006164500030027