Definition and Implementation of a Simulation Model for the Physical Layer and the Radio Channel in Dedicated Short Range Communication Systems

This paper proposes a vehicle-to-vehicle propagation model implemented with SDL. To estimate the channel characteristics for Inter-Vehicle communication, we first define a predicted propagation pathloss between the moving vehicles under three typical scenarios. A Ray-tracing method is used for the simple gamma model performance.

Authors:

• Mounir Frikha
• Michael Meincke
• Semia Barouni

Keywords:

• Inter-vehicle communication (IVC)
• propagationmodel
• road traffic
• road vicinity
• pathloss.

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