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Characterizing channel fading in vehicular visible light communications with video data

  • Peking University
  • Intel
  • National Taiwan University

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Abstract

There is no prior work in characterizing fading caused by vehicle mobility in vehicular visible light communications (V2LC). Different from a radio frequency (RF) communication link, the path loss of a V2LC link is dictated by not only the transmitter-receiver (T-R) distance, but also the irradiance angle and the incidence angle, which have large variation when the vehicles are in motion. In this paper, we took a novel approach to take a first look at the problem. Utilizing the video data obtained from a dashboard camera and computer vision techniques, we are able to estimate the relative location and angle parameters of neighboring vehicles with great level of detail. These parameters are then used to derive a time function of path loss, with which the autocorrelation and the channel coherence time are calculated. Our results show that V2LC links have much slower channel time variation compared to RF V2V links: the coherence time is at least an order larger.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2014
EditorsFalko Dressler, Onur Altintas, Suman Banerjee, Bjorn Scheuermann, David Eckhoff
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages226-229
Number of pages4
EditionJanuary
ISBN (Electronic)9781479976607
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2014 - Paderborn, Germany
Duration: 3 Dec 20145 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC
NumberJanuary
Volume2015-January
ISSN (Print)2157-9857
ISSN (Electronic)2157-9865

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2014
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPaderborn
Period3/12/145/12/14

Keywords

  • Channel Fading
  • Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communications
  • Vehicular Visible Light Communication (V2LC)
  • Visible Light Communications (VLC)

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