Abstract
This work focuses on radio wave propagation within forested environments, at 5.8 GHz. Concretely, we explore the advantages of implementing spatial diversity in reception or even in both ends for improving the strength of the received signal in such environments, which could be useful in applications such as vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle, or emergency communications. Measurements gathered at both evergreen and deciduous forests sustain the thesis. Once processed, the results support the proposal of implementing a spatial diversity technique in reception or in both ends using a 2 × 4 (or 2 × 2) scheme in order to improve the connectivity at 5.8 GHz band within forests. In fact, we estimated a gain due to spatial diversity in reception of 5 dB and 2 dB at evergreen and deciduous forests, respectively, and 16 dB or 5 dB when implementing at both ends.
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