Quad-Port Multiservice Diversity Antenna for Automotive Applications

Lekha Kannappan; Sandeep Kumar Palaniswamy; Lulu Wang; Malathi Kanagasabai; Sachin Kumar; Mohammed Gulam Nabi Alsath; Thipparaju Rama Rao

doi:10.3390/s21248238

Sensors (Dec 2021)

Quad-Port Multiservice Diversity Antenna for Automotive Applications

Lekha Kannappan,
Sandeep Kumar Palaniswamy,
Lulu Wang,
Malathi Kanagasabai,
Sachin Kumar,
Mohammed Gulam Nabi Alsath,
Thipparaju Rama Rao

Affiliations

Lekha Kannappan: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 603203, India
Sandeep Kumar Palaniswamy: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 603203, India
Lulu Wang: Biomedical Device Innovation Center, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China
Malathi Kanagasabai: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India
Sachin Kumar: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 603203, India
Mohammed Gulam Nabi Alsath: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai 603110, India
Thipparaju Rama Rao: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai 603203, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248238
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 21, no. 24
p. 8238

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A quad-element multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with ultra-wideband (UWB) performance is presented in this paper. The MIMO antenna consists of four orthogonally arranged microstrip line-fed hexagonal monopole radiators and a modified ground plane. In addition, E-shaped and G-shaped stubs are added to the radiator to achieve additional resonances at 1.5 GHz and 2.45 GHz. The reliability of the antenna in the automotive environment is investigated, with housing effects taken into account. The housing effects show that the antenna performs consistently even in the presence of a large metal object. The proposed MIMO antenna has potential for various automotive applications, including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), intelligent transport system (ITS), automatic vehicle identifier, and RFID-based electronic toll collection.

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ISSN: 1424-8220 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Chemical technology
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