Power control and sector antennas for improved DS/SS inter-vehicle communication

Author

Michael, Lachlan B. ; Nakagawa, Masao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

921

Abstract

In this paper power control and sector antennas are considered for an advanced form of inter-vehicle communication (IVC), called boomerang communication, which uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DS/SS). By the combined use of power control and sector antennas, an increase in reliability in the proposed system is shown by computer simulations. With increased reliability a decrease in vehicular accidents and more intelligent traffic flow can be expected

Keywords

Rician channels; automated highways; land mobile radio; power control; receiving antennas; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication control; telecommunication network reliability; transmitting antennas; DS/SS inter-vehicle communication; Rician propagation model; boomerang communication; computer simulations; direct sequence spread spectrum; intelligent traffic flow; intelligent transportation systems; intelligent vehicles highway system; omnidirectional antenna; power control; receiving antenna; sector antennas; system reliability; transmitting antenna; vehicular accidents; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent vehicles; Optical fiber communication; Power control; Power system reliability; Presence network agents; Road accidents; Road transportation; Spread spectrum radar; Vehicle detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.734696

Filename

734696