Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/PIMRC.1998.734696
