High Gain Circularly Polarized Wire Antenna for DSRC Applications

In this communication, a low-cost circularly polarized wire antenna exhibiting improved gain performance for Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications is presented. The proposed antenna comprises a Y-shaped quarterwavelength monopole antenna surrounded by two iterations of eight conductive arched walls acting as parasitic elements to enhance the overall antenna gain and to shape the radiation pattern in the H-plane. A hemispherical radome shell is added to protect the antenna structure and its effect on the antenna performance is discussed. The designed antenna demonstrates antenna gain of 8.2 dB with omnidirectional far-field radiation pattern in the H-plane. The gain of the proposed antenna is also compared with the characteristic of the stand-alone Y-shaped monopole to highlight the advantages of the proposed approach.

Authors:

• Mohammad J. Almalkawi

Keywords:

• Circularly polarized
• dedicated short-range communication
• omnidirectional pattern
• vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)
• vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)
• Y-shaped wire monopole antenna.

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