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Characterisation of system performance of GPS antennas in mobile terminals including environmental effects

  • Masood Ur-Rehman
    ,
  • Yue Gao
    ,
  • Xiaodong Chen
    ,
  • Clive G. Parini
    ,
  • Zhinong Ying
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Abstract

Incident waves on a GPS antenna on mobile terminals suffer from multipath effects due to reflection, diffraction and scattering from environmental objects including buildings, trees, vehicles and ground. A traditional electromagnetic approach to analyse the GPS antenna performance is therefore unable to give a correct account of the antenna working in a real multipath environment. A new technique to characterise these environmental effects on the GPS antenna is presented in this paper, defined by three parameters; GPS Mean Effective Gain (MEGGPS), GPS Angle of Arrival (AoAGPS) distribution and GPS Coverage Efficiency (ηc).

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 05/06/2009

Publication status

Published - 05/06/2009

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781424447534

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/281694

Host publication title

nan

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