Performance of two branch space and polarization diversity at 900 MHz

Author

Ruiz-Boqué, Silvia ; Vilades, Marc ; Rodriguez, J.

Author_Institution

ETSETB, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

1493

Abstract

This work summarizes the results of a measurement campaign undertaken to evaluate the performance of two branch space and polarization diversity schemes at 900 MHz in different environments (urban, suburban, rural flat and rural hilly). A total number of 783 runs were made covering these sites and using different transmitter antennas (vertical polarized roof-top antenna, handheld randomly inclined) at differents speeds (walking, by car at 30 up to 80 km/h). Comparison between the two types of diversity schemes have been made through calculation of the statistics of mean received signal level, diversity gain, incremental diversity gain and envelope cross-correlation

Keywords

diversity reception; electromagnetic wave polarisation; land mobile radio; mobile antennas; transmitting antennas; 900 MHz; branch space diversity; diversity gain; envelope cross-correlation; handheld randomly inclined antenna; mean received signal level; performance; polarization diversity; rural flat region; rural hill region; suburban region; transmitter antennas; urban region; vertical polarized roof-top antenna; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Fading; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Statistics; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.605615

Filename

605615