Radiation characteristics of leaky cables with periodic slots under snow environment

Author

Chong Zhang ; Junhong Wang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of All Opt. Network & Adv. Telecommun. Network of MOE, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

213

Abstract

The leaky cables, such as the leaky coaxial cable and leaky circular waveguide, are capable of distributing much smoother radio wave coverage than the discrete antenna system. However, when the leaky cables are used in the urban mass transit, they might be influenced by the extremely bad weather, especially for the low temperature and accumulated snow. In this paper, the influences of snow coverage with different volumetric wetness and different temperature on the near field distributions and the radiation characteristics of the leaky coaxial cable and leaky circular waveguide are simulated and analyzed. It is valuable to the design of the leaky cables.

Keywords

circular waveguides; coaxial cables; waveguide antennas; discrete antenna system; leaky circular waveguide; leaky coaxial cable radiation characteristics; near field distributions; periodic slots; radio wave coverage; snow environment; urban mass transit; volumetric wetness; Antenna radiation patterns; Coaxial cables; Dielectric constant; Dielectric losses; Snow; Temperature; circular waveguide; leaky coaxial cable (LCX); radiation characteristics; rectangular waveguide; snow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory (ISAPE), 2012 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Xian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1799-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2012.6408746

Filename

6408746