Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2012
Session Number:2A2
Session:
Number:2A2-5
Sectorial Cylindrical Patch Antenna for Broadband at Sea Wireless Nodes Installed on Vessels
Pawel Kabacik,
pp.-
Publication Date:2012/10/29
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The paper presents a concept of the cylindrical antenna for broadband networks to be deployed on seas and oceans where traffic is dense. An important leading application of cylindrical antenna arrays, are becoming broadband wireless systems with mobile nodes and ad-hoc set-up topology. The main reasons driving interests in the cylindrical antennas for such networks, is their ability to provide gain advantage for radio link budget and offering design opportunities to spatial access. The presented cylindrical antenna array is able to provide, either overlapping several sector beams or by little disturbed omnidirectional pattern in the azimuth plane. In practical terms, the main evaluation criterions of such cylindrical antenna arrays are link radio performance and range of robust communication with implemented protocols. Furthermore, little troublesome operation and durability are important to antenna evaluation.