Measurement based non-line-of-sight vehicular visible light communication channel characterization

Abstract

Vehicular visible light comnumication (V-VLC) aims to provide secure complementary vehicle-to-everything-communications (V2X) to increase road safety and traffic efficiency. V-VLC provides directional transmissions, mainly enabling line-of-sight (LoS) communications. How ever, reflections due to nearby objects enable non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions, extending the usage scenarios beyond LoS. In this paper, we propose wide-band measurement based NLoS channel characterization, and evaluate the performance of direct current biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) V-VIA: scheme for NLoS channel. We propose a distance based NLoS V-VLC channel path loss model considering reflection surface characteristics and NLoS V-VLC channel impulse response (CIR) incorporating the temporal broadening effect due to vehicle reflections through weighted double gamma function. The proposed path loss model yields higher accuracy up to 14 dB when c pared to single order reflection model whereas CIR model estimates the full width at half maximum up to 2 ns accuracy. We further demonstrate that the target bit-error-rate of 10(-3) can be achieved up to 7.86 in, 9.79 m, and 17.62 m distances for black, orange and white vehicle reflection induced measured NLoS V-VLC channels for DCO-OFDM transmissions.