Performance evaluation of vehicular Visible Light Communication based on angle-oriented receiver

Abstract

Visible Light Communication (VLC) has emerged as a promising technology to complement radio frequency-based vehicular communications. Initial studies in Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) VLC systems assumed that two vehicles follow each other with perfect alignment. Such idealistic assumption is not always maintained during traveling along the road. The lateral shift between the vehicles might strongly impact the system performance. In addition, the effect of the transceiver and system parameters on the performance of V2V-VLC systems should be taken into account. In this paper, we fill this research gap by investigating the performance of V2V-VLC systems under the impact of the lateral shift between the vehicles and transceiver parameters. Then, we introduce the use of the angle-oriented receiver (AOR) in V2V-VLC systems to enhance the system performance in terms of achievable capacity, maximum achievable distance, and packet delivery ratio (PDR). The AOR consists of multiple receiving elements oriented in different directions. We further investigate the impact of the number of AOR elements, both the field-of-view (FoV) and the aperture diameter of each receiving element, and the bandwidth on the system performance. Our results demonstrate that with a carefully chosen system and AOR parameters, a higher system capacity of up to 61 Mb/s is achieved at a communication distance of 50 m.