A Novel Single-Band Antenna for Enhanced V2X Communication: Review Towards Prototype Development

This research explores the rapidly emerging field of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, which is central to the development and efficacy of Intelligent Transportation Systems (Chen in IEEE Commun Stand Mag 1:70–76, 2017) and vehicular networks. The focus is on designing a state-of-the-art single-band antenna, exclusively tuned to operate at a frequency of 3.4 GHz. The design uniquely enhances vehicular communication by augmenting bandwidth and gain, making it optimally tailored for V2X applications. Notably, the antenna boasts of compactness coupled with a resilient build, characteristics paramount for mobile contexts, especially vehicles. Advanced Design System (ADS) simulation tools played an instrumental (Kumar and Ray in Broadband microstrip antennas. Artech House, 2009) role in refining design parameters, ensuring optimal signal strength, expansive coverage whilst also minimising interference. An intrinsic quality of this antenna is its near-perfect omnidirectional radiation pattern, which proves to be invaluable in dynamic vehicular scenarios where nodal connective orientations change frequently. Rigorous assessments, both simulated and field-tested, highlighted the antenna’s superiority over its contemporaries, especially under high-mobility vehicular conditions. Furthermore, this study encapsulates a detailed analysis of design challenges encountered and the innovative resolutions implemented. Simulated studies under representative vehicular conditions further endorsed the antenna’s efficacy, firmly establishing the potential of a single-band antenna in V2X applications. This research accentuates the pivotal role of such an antenna in forging more efficient and safer intelligent transportation networks.