An efficient traffic monitoring and control system using aerial platforms and vertical arrays

Yasser Albagory (), Omar Said, Mostafa Nofal and Fahad Alraddady
Additional contact information
Yasser Albagory: Taif University
Omar Said: Taif University
Mostafa Nofal: Taif University
Fahad Alraddady: Taif University

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, 2018, vol. 69, issue 1, No 9, 140 pages

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, a reliable traffic monitoring system is proposed based on aerial platform (AP) wireless sensor network with a new adaptive vertical linear array beamforming technique. This proposed beamforming technique improves the system performance compared with recent techniques using the same number of antenna elements which makes aerial platforms more feasible to establish wireless sensor network for traffic monitoring application. Four coverage scenarios of the proposed AP traffic monitoring system are examined at coverage diameters of 16 and 60 km and two bit rates of 38.4 and 250 kb/s. The simulation results depicts better performance of the proposed antenna technique in all the four examined coverage scenarios. At the worst case (60 km coverage diameter, 2400 MHz frequency and bit rate of 250 kb/s), the probability of bit-energy to noise-spectral-density ( $$E_{b}/N_{o})$$ E b / N o ) to be less than 4 dB is zero for the proposed technique while it was 0.14 in the case of optimized concentric circular array technique and 0.76 for the conventional spot-beam antenna. Also, at the coverage diameter of 16 km and bit rate of 38.4 kb/s at 868 MHz, the results show that the probability of $$E_{b}/N_{o}

Keywords: Aerial platforms; Antenna arrays; Wireless sensor network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11235-018-0436-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:telsys:v:69:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1007_s11235-018-0436-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/11235

DOI: 10.1007/s11235-018-0436-2

Access Statistics for this article

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management is currently edited by Muhammad Khan

More articles in Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().