TY - GEN
T1 - Broadband Antenna Selection for Vehicle-mounted Jamming System against RCIEDs
AU - Tran, Thi M.D.
AU - Piette, Marc
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/23
Y1 - 2018/10/23
N2 - Radio-frequency (RF) jammer is an effective response to Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) threats which nowadays have been growing significantly across the globe. RFjammer works by blocking the control of these explosive devices. Jamming (Jx) signals are transmitted in a wide frequency range (typically from 20 MHz to 6 GHz) with an adequate power to overwhelm or distort the trigger signal, and consequently to prevent the activation of RCIED. To improve the effectiveness of RCIED counter system, much research has devoted to improving Jx techniques but far less attention has been paid on an indispensable component, namely antenna. The common existing Jx antenna type is a wideband monopole mounted on top of a vehicle, reused from communication which is not optimized for the Jx purposes. This article presents the selection of a possible broadband antenna which fits for Jx application. The Jx antenna should operate effectively at an extremely wide bandwidth, usually impractical to design. Therefore, the total bandwidth has divided into two bands: low-band 20-500 MHz, and high-band 500 MHz - 6 GHz. The high band antenna is the focal point of the antenna system design because of its high sensitivity to the host platform.
AB - Radio-frequency (RF) jammer is an effective response to Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) threats which nowadays have been growing significantly across the globe. RFjammer works by blocking the control of these explosive devices. Jamming (Jx) signals are transmitted in a wide frequency range (typically from 20 MHz to 6 GHz) with an adequate power to overwhelm or distort the trigger signal, and consequently to prevent the activation of RCIED. To improve the effectiveness of RCIED counter system, much research has devoted to improving Jx techniques but far less attention has been paid on an indispensable component, namely antenna. The common existing Jx antenna type is a wideband monopole mounted on top of a vehicle, reused from communication which is not optimized for the Jx purposes. This article presents the selection of a possible broadband antenna which fits for Jx application. The Jx antenna should operate effectively at an extremely wide bandwidth, usually impractical to design. Therefore, the total bandwidth has divided into two bands: low-band 20-500 MHz, and high-band 500 MHz - 6 GHz. The high band antenna is the focal point of the antenna system design because of its high sensitivity to the host platform.
KW - RCIED
KW - jammer
KW - ultra-wideband antenna
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057100170&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APWC.2018.8503745
DO - 10.1109/APWC.2018.8503745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057100170
T3 - Proceedings of the 2018 8th IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2018
SP - 866
EP - 869
BT - Proceedings of the 2018 8th IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2018
Y2 - 10 September 2018 through 14 September 2018
ER -