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Effects of on-PCB location of radiating element on the performance of Mobile terminal GPS antennas in multipath environment

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

Portable GPS mobile terminal antennas suffer from multipath effects. Environmental objects like vehicles, buildings, trees and ground plane (earth) make incident radio waves to reflect, diffract and scatter. Free space antenna parameters therefore, do not give an accurate account of antenna performance in real working scenarios. Statistical models are considered to be an efficient way to replicate the multipath environment and analyse the antenna operation in such environment. A novel statistical approach for characterisation of the environmental factors on the GPS antennas has been proposed by Ur Rehman et al. [1], [2]. This method models the open field multipath environment for the GPS operation and defines the antenna performance in terms of GPS Mean Effective Gain (MEGGPS), GPS Angle of Arrival (AoAGPS) distribution and GPS Coverage Efficiency (ηc). Position of radiating element on PCB/ground plane can affect the antenna performance in small terminal GPS antennas. This paper investigates the operation of IFA and DRA antennas in GPS multipath environment considering effects of different locations of the radiating element on the PCB/ground plane.

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Output type

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

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2011

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2011

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781457702501

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/281653

Host publication title

nan

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