Improved scheme for the problem of anti‐fading of DSRC systems in IEEE 802.11p environments

Abstract

Vehicular communication for accident avoidance is an important application defined in the IEEE 802.11p. One of the challenges of vehicular communications in the current IEEE 802.11p standard is the complex and rapidly changing channel conditions. In this study, the author focusses on the vehicle-to-vehicle channels under the IEEE 802.11p standard and point out that there exist two different kinds of fading. Then, a new dedicated short range communication (DSRC) system with two improved methods is proposed for the weak performance of anti-fading of current system in IEEE 802.11p environments. The author adopts matrix spectral transformation method to replace least squares algorithm in spectral temporal averaging (STA) scheme proposed by Fernandez to further mitigate the negative effects of DSRC system caused by fast time-varying fading. Meanwhile, the author also proposes a spectral keying method to further enhance its ability of anti-frequency-selective fading. The final simulation results show that compared with STA and other methods, the improved scheme shows better performance on mean square error, bit error rate and packet error rate, which is promising for practical applications.