A geometry-based stochastic scattering channel model for V2V communications in dense urban street environments

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a stochastic channel model in three-dimensional (3D) space for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications in dense urban environments. The movement of the mobile transmitter and mobile receiver results in the V2V channel model behave temporal non-stationarity. Therefore, the time-varying parameters of the propagation paths and angles are derived to characterize such property. Using this channel model, we investigate the propagation characteristics of V2V channels in terms of the road section and moving time/directions/speeds of the transmitter and receiver. Numerical results show that the theoretical results of the propagation characteristics of the V2V channel model are very close to those of the simulation ones, which show that the proposed channel model is suitable for depicting the V2V communications in dense urban scenarios.