Bit Error Rate Performance Of System Research Articles

Performance Evaluation of Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Using the Monte Carlo Simulation Method in an AWGN Channel

Purpose: The study investigates the performance of digital terrestrial television broadcasting in Ghana. Design/Methodology/Approach: The experimental methodology employed MATLAB R2018a as the primary simulation environment, operating on a Dell laptop with Windows 8, 16GB RAM, and an Intel Core i7 processor. The Monte Carlo simulation framework was implemented to analyse probabilistic outcomes in complex systems where deterministic approaches prove inadequate. Findings: This work performs a MATLAB simulation of a digital network in an Asynchronous white Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel using Monte Carlo Simulation. The performance of BER vs. SNR is analysed using several QAM modulation schemes. The effect of noise over the AWGN channel was observed using constellation diagrams. Research Limitation: This study concentrated on digital terrestrial television in Ghana, QAM modulation techniques, and MATLAB as a modelling tool. Practical Implication: BER and SNR are excellent measurements of a digital communication system's performance. Understanding the bit-error rate (BER) facilitates optimising other digital communication system parameters for improved performance. Social Implication: A Bit Error Rate (BER) offers an impartial, measurable measure of the system closely linked to its operational performance. A higher bit error rate (BER) indicates poor system performance. There is an apparent variance in the BER in the AWGN channel between low and high modulation techniques. Originality/ Value: This paper simulates the BER performance of a digital communication system. The benchmark compares the BER variation in an AWGN channel for various SNRs using various modulation techniques.

Performance Analysis of Troposphere Scattering Communication Channel with Chirp-BOK Modulation.

By utilizing chirp-BOK (binary orthogonal keying) modulation into a troposphere scattering communication system, a lower demodulation threshold can be achieved with excellent linear frequency modulation properties in a strong noise and weak signal environment. Firstly, the bit error rate (BER) formula of chirp-BOK modulation over a Rayleigh fading channel was derived theoretically. Then, the BER performance with different chirp-BOK parameters were numerically calculated. In order to investigate the performance of chirp-BOK over deeping fading troposphere scattering link, a seven-path equal-delay Rayleigh fading model was employed. Finally, the system BER performance was simulated under different tap delay and time-bandwidth product parameters. The results demonstrate that when BER reaches 10-4, the optimal configuration of the system achieves a gains approximately from 1.7 dB to 10 dB compared to non-optimized configuration under different Path-Gain-Vector with varying tap delays.

Performance Analysis of Reflective Intelligent Surface Assisted Bidirectional Full‐Duplex Communication Systems Over Nakagami‐m$$ m $$ Fading Channels

ABSTRACTIn this paper, a passive reflective intelligent surface (RIS) assisted bidirectional full‐duplex (FD) wireless system in a realistic Nakagami‐ fading with reflective elements and two source nodes is proposed. The source nodes are equipped with dual antennas for FD mode transmission and reception. The primary cause of degradation in the performance of the FD system is self‐interference, which can be reduced by increasing the number of reflective elements on the meta‐surface. Analytical expressions have been derived for the proposed RIS‐aided bidirectional FD wireless systems in terms of outage probability and bit error rate (BER). Numerical results show that doubling the number of reflecting elements considerably improves the outage performance of the proposed system in terms of signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) compared with RIS‐assisted half‐duplex (HD) mode. Additionally, different modulation schemes have been employed to evaluate the BER performance of the proposed system. The accuracy of analytical expressions is validated by matching Monte Carlo with analytical simulations.

Transmission Diversity by Alamouti-Coding, Propagation Control by IRS in CDMA-FBMC-OQAM System

This manuscript suggests a modulation scheme for exploiting transmission diversity by integrating Alamouti coding and controlling the transmission by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in code division multiple access filter bank multicarrier offset quadrature amplitude modulation (CDMA-FBMC-OQAM) system, a promising technique for future-generation wireless communication. To neutralize the impact of channel phases, the IRS elements are in charge of intelligently adjusting the incident signal phases. By maximizing the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) of the received signal, the bit-error-rate (BER) performance is improved. By changing the number of IRS elements, taking into account various channel scenarios and modulation schemes, we compare the BER performance of the proposed system with that of the conventional Alamouti coded CDMA-FBMC-OQAM system in simulation results. The findings demonstrate that the IRS-assisted Alamouti coded CDMA-FBMC-OQAM transmission is a feasible choice for future-generation wireless communication systems.

Performance evaluation and investigation of diffraction optical elements effect on bit error rate of free space optics and performance investigation of space uplink wireless optical communication under varying atmospheric turbulence conditions

AbstractSeveral other optical antenna topologies have been developed and implemented throughout the years. These topologies include a variety of optical components, including the axicon optical element, dual‐secondary mirror, cone reflecting mirror, prism beam slier, and beam‐splitter/beam combiner. In contrast, the secondary reflecting mirror causes an obscuration loss that must be compensated for by reducing the transmission power in an optical antenna design. In order to address this issue in space optical communication, the present research helps to develop an enhanced two diffractive optical elements (DOEs) technology however the data presented therein only shows that DOEs may boost transmission power efficiency, which is insufficient for system designers. Though On‐Off Keying (OOK) is widely used in optical communication systems at the moment, the proposed research include DOEs into an OOK space uplink optical. The proposed research uses numerical simulation to explore how much a space uplink OOK system's bit error rate (BER) may be improved by using DOEs and adjusting fundamental parameters. The proposed BER model takes environmental factors like wind and detector noise into account. Using this theoretical model, the present work helps to investigate the effect of DOEs on the BER versus fundamental parameter characteristic curves in space uplink optical communication. Based on the findings, the DOEs structure has the potential to significantly enhance the BER performance of space uplink optical communication systems, especially at high obscuration ratios. When the obscuration ratio is 0.25, 0.167, or 0.125 and the transmission power is 1 W, for instance, the DOEs may improve the BER by a factor of two or one order of magnitude or less when the parameters are changed to the typical parameter values as specified. Results increase by a factor of six, three, and two orders of magnitude, respectively, when transmitting at 5 W. The results show that DOEs can significantly enhance the BER performance, especially at high obscuration ratios. The findings suggest that integrating DOEs into the optical subsystem is a straightforward approach to improving the performance of space uplink optical communication systems.

Optical-OFDM VLC System: Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Enhancement and Performance Evaluation.

Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems are favoured for numerous applications due to their extensive bandwidth and resilience to electromagnetic interference. This study delineates various constructions of Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (O-OFDM) approaches employed in VLC systems. Various factors are elaborated within this context to ascertain a more effective O-OFDM approach, including constellation size, data arrangement and spectral efficiency, power efficiency, computational complexity, bit error rate (BER), and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This paper seeks to assess these approaches' BER and PAPR performance across varying modulation orders. Regrettably, in VLC systems based on OFDM methodology, the superposition of multiple subcarriers results in a high PAPR. Therefore, this study aims to diminish the PAPR in VLC systems, enhancing system performance. We propose a non-distorting PAPR reduction technique, namely the Vandermonde-Like Matrix (VLM) precoding technique. The suggested technique is implemented across various O-OFDM approaches, including DCO-OFDM, ADO-OFDM, ACO-OFDM, FLIP-OFDM, ASCO-OFDM, and LACO-OFDM. Notably, this method does not affect the system's data rate because it does not require the mandatory transmission of side information. Furthermore, this technique can decrease the PAPR without impacting the system's BER performance. This study compares the proposed PAPR reduction technique against established methods documented in the literature to evaluate their efficacy and validity rigorously.

Investigation of Costas loop phase deviation effect on BER performance of space downlink coherent communication system with DPSK scheme

The Costas loop is an important technology for synchronous demodulation in space coherent communication. However, due to the limitation of the loop device and processing technology, it is difficult to achieve high-precision locking, which results in the Costas loop phase deviation and further affects the quality of the demodulation signal. In this paper, a closed-form bit error rate (BER) model is derived to evaluate the Costas loop phase deviation effect on BER performance in the space differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation and heterodyne detection communication system, considering laser phase noise, atmospheric turbulence, and detector noise. Based on the BER model, analytical solution simulation is conducted. The results show that the BER performance deteriorates varying with the increase of the Costas loop phase deviation. In addition, we research how to better balance the laser linewidth and Costas loop accuracy in the system design to ensure good communication status. We find that the wider the laser linewidth, the more stringent the Costas loop accuracy. Furthermore, the BER performance versus the Costas loop phase deviation under different satellite-to-ground communication system parameter settings including divergence angle, receiving aperture, signal laser power, and data rate are analyzed. This work provides valuable references for space optical coherent communication systems design.

Machine learning assisted adaptive LDPC coded system design and analysis

AbstractThis paper proposes a novel machine learning (ML) assisted low‐latency low density parity check (LDPC) coded adaptive modulation (AM) system, where short block‐length LDPC codes are used. Conventional adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) system includes fixed look‐up table method, which is also called inner loop link adaptation (ILLA) and outer loop link adaptation (OLLA). For ILLA, the adaptive capability is achieved by switching the modulation and coding modes based on a look‐up table using signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) thresholds at the target bit error rate (BER), while OLLA builds upon the ILLA method by dynamically adjusting the SNR thresholds to further optimize the system performance. Although both improve the system overall throughput by switching between different transmission modes, there is still a gap to optimal performance as the BER is comparatively far away from the target BER. Machine learning (ML) is a promising solution in solving various classification problems. In this work, the supervised learning based k‐nearest neighbours (KNN) algorithm is invoked for choosing the optimum transmission mode based on the training data and the instantaneous SNR. This work focuses on the low‐latency communications scenarios, where short block‐length LDPC codes are utilized. On the other hand, given the short block‐length constraint, we propose to artificially generate the training data to train our ML assisted AMC scheme. The simulation results show that the proposed ML‐LDPC‐AMC scheme can achieve a higher throughput than the ILLA system while maintaining the target BER. Compared with OLLA, the proposed scheme can maintain the target BER while the OLLA fails to maintain the target BER when the block length is short. In addition, when considering the channel estimation errors, the performance of the proposed ML‐LDPC‐AMC maintains the target BER, while the ILLA system's BER performance can be higher than the target BER.

Coverage Enhancement of Light-Emitting Diode Array in Underwater Internet of Things over Optical Channels

The construction of the underwater Internet of Things (UIoT) is crucial to marine resource development, environmental observation, and tactical surveillance. The underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) system with its large bandwidth and wide coverage facilitates the high-capacity information interconnection within the UIoT networks over short and medium ranges. To enhance the coverage characteristics of the UOWC system, an optimized lemniscate-compensated layout of light-emitting diode (LED) array is proposed in this paper, which can ameliorate the received optical power and reliability at the receiving terminal. Compared with traditional circular and rectangular layouts, the received optical power and bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed system are analyzed based on the Monte Carlo simulation method. The analysis results show that the proposed LED array achieves a smaller peak power deviation and mean square error of the received optical power under three typical seawater environments. Furthermore, the proposed LED-array scheme supports a better BER performance of the UOWC system. For example, in turbid seawater with a transmission depth of 9.5 m, the BER of the proposed LED array layout is 1 × 10−7, which is better than the BER of 3.5 × 10−6 and 1 × 10−4 under the other two traditional light source layouts.

Design of Non-Isolated Modulation Code With Minimum Hamming Distance of 3 for Bit-Patterned Media-Recording Systems

In bit-patterned media recording (BPMR), the magnetic islands are adjusted closer together to increase the areal density. This makes the bit-error rate (BER) performance of BPMR worse by inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-track interference (ITI) from cross-and down-track directions, respectively. To solve the ISI and ITI issues, the data is modulated into non-isolated patterns before storing on the medium of BPMR systems. Furthermore, for improving the non-isolated patterned modulation code, we introduced a method to create the non-isolated patterned code with a minimum Hamming distance (MHD) of 3 instead of 2 as in the previous studies. In our proposed method, firstly, we considered the generator matrix of the Hamming code to create one-dimensional codewords with an MHD of 3. Further, these codewords were converted into two-dimensional codewords, mitigating the isolated pattern. Finally, to create a fast encoder and decoder, we used the multi-layer perceptron to encode the original data into the non-isolated codewords with an MHD of 3. The results show that our proposed model improved the BER performance of the BPMR system.

Research on Adaptive Transmit Diversity Strategy for Reducing Interference in Underwater Optical Multi-Beam Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems

With the rapid development of the underwater Internet of Things (IoT), the number of underwater communication nodes is rapidly increasing. The access capacity of a traditional multi-antenna communication system is limited by the number of transmitting antennas, and multi-beam communication systems using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology can enhance the access capacity of the system. However, this can lead to serious inter-beam and intra-beam interference. To address the severe issues of inter-beam and intra-beam interference in underwater multi-beam NOMA systems, we propose an adaptive transmit diversity strategy. We design an algorithm for adaptive selection and merging beams based on the degree of interference between beams in space, which merges LED beams with high interference. Diversity technology is used to reduce interference between beams, and spatial multiplexing is still performed between LED groups with low interference. Within the same beam, we use an OFDM-NOMA scheme to match and group the users. Signals from different user groups are sent through different subcarriers to improve resource utilization. This enhances access capacity while reducing NOMA inter-user interference. Simulation results show that the bit error rate (BER) of users with the adaptive transmit diversity strategy satisfies the forward error correction (FEC) limits in the presence of high inter-beam interference and has a better reachable rate and BER performance compared to the multi-beam access system without interference management. We also analyze the system BER performance of the proposed strategy in the multi-user case, and the BER of all 32 access nodes are lower than the FEC threshold at a communication distance of 5 m. This demonstrates that the strategy can effectively reduce the interference of the multi-beam NOMA system.

Closed‐form expression of long‐range modulated massive multiple‐input multiple‐output fractional Fourier transform‐orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system under two‐wave with diffuse power fading channel

SummaryIn this paper, the massive multiple‐input multiple‐output fractional Fourier transform‐based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO FrFT‐OFDM) system is investigated using the Long Range (LoRa) modulation technique. The conventional system relies on quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) modulation technology; high‐power amplifiers are needed to transmit the QAM signal. The LoRa modulation technique produces long‐range and low power signals. The two‐wave with diffused power (TWDP) fading channel is used to examine the system's performance. The expression of the bit‐error rate (BER) of the proposed system is also represented in a unique closed form. The proposed system is applied to a state‐of‐the art hospital, one of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. As the problem of heart stroke is common, it needs to be monitored every second. The electrocardiogram (ECG) data are used to evaluate how well the proposed system is working. Using the proposed model, the physicians get the patient's ECG data while moving in the hospital, getting it at a high data rate, at a low cost because of the extended battery life, a long range, and a low BER. The data considered are from the MIT‐BIH Arrhythmia Database. The result displays that the proposed model achieves a BER of at 10 dB of signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR), and the conventional model achieves the same BER at 15 dB of SNR. The BER performance of the proposed system is improved by nearly 5 dB.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF TWO-WAY COOPERATIVE DCSK SYSTEM USING GROUPING SUBCARRIER-PERMUTATION INDEX MODULATION

This paper proposes a new two-way half-duplex cooperative communication system based on a new chaotic modulation scheme called Joint Grouping Subcarrier-Permutation Index Modulation-based Differential Chaos Shift Keying (GSPIM-DCSK) in order to enhance its energy efficiency, data rate, and BER-performance. GSPIM-DCSKI utilizes a permutation index to load additional data bits, and the input bits are divided into groups that contain carrier, permutation, and modulated bits. The active and within each group are selected based on carrier index bits. The energy and spectral efficiency of the GSPIM-DCSKI systems are evaluated and compared to GSIM-DCSKI. The performance of the new schemes is evaluated by calculating the bit error rate (BER) under different channel conditions. Finally, the BER performance of the new cooperative system using GSPIM-DCSKI is compared to a traditional cooperative system using DCSK and proves that the new cooperative system has a better performance than the traditional one in different channels. Simulation results show that at the multipath Rayleigh fading channel the proposed cooperative system gained SNR about 3 dB at a BER level of 10^(-3) at than the traditional one and this gain is increased to equal 4 Db when p2=4.

Biased-Power Allocation and Shared-Antenna Selection Techniques for Spatial Modulation-Based Layer Division Multiplexing Systems

This study proposes two approaches for improving the effectiveness of spatial modulation integrated into layer division multiplexing (SM-LDM) in broadcasting systems: biased-power allocation (Bi-PA) and shared antenna selection (SAS). Even though different data rates are employed in SM-LDM systems, Bi-PA enhances bit error rate (BER) fairness across layers. The ideal power ratios are adaptively determined by balancing signal-to-interference plus noise ratios with a preference for the lower layer (LL) that involves a higher modulation order. SAS alleviates the complexity of successive interference cancellation and enhances spectral and energy efficiencies. Both the LL and upper layer (UL) share the antenna selection decision and transmit using a single antenna. The UL carries a space shift keying signal while the entire power is allocated for the LL. We analyze the spectral efficiency for the SAS-based SM-LDM system with finite alphabet inputs. Numerical results demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approaches. Compared to pre-assigned-PA (Pre-PA), Bi-PA shows nearly identical BERs for both layers and solves the error floor problem. The sharing property and common layer transmission of SAS-based SM-LDM yield a significant BER reduction relative to conventional SM-LDM. It provides gains ranging from 7 to 15 dB for LL at BER equal to 10−3, while UL performance ranges from slight gain to minor loss. Furthermore, both Bi-PA and SAS techniques enhance the achievable LL rate and sum-rate at low and intermediate signal-to-noise ratio values. They can achieve an improvement of up to two bits in LL rate and less than one bit in sum-rate at a signal-to-noise ratio of −0.5 dB. These findings show that both proposed techniques have a considerable impact on enhancing the fairness, BER performance, and feasible rates of SM-LDM systems, making them promise for broadcast system designs.

Effect of bioluminescence on the performance of an underwater optical wireless communication channel

The performance of an underwater wireless optical communication channel (UWOC) is affected by the ambient noise in the water medium. However, no major studies have estimated the spectral bioluminescence upwelling radiance (BLu) numerically with the inputs of measured bioluminescence potential (BP) in oceanic conditions. This study presents a numerical model to estimate the BLu in open ocean and coastal waters and to investigate the UWOC channel performance in terms of the bit error rate (BER) in presence of bioluminescence using Monte Carlo numerical technique. The simulation results suggested that the BER performance degrades in the presence of bioluminescence and can be improved with a narrower receiver FOV. Further, the impact of bioluminescence on the BER performance of the UWOC system at different operational depths is investigated under typical system specifications (APD/PMT, FOV, and receiver aperture). The simulation results showed that BER at different operational depths is more sensitive in open ocean waters than in coastal turbid water with the bioluminescence signal. The results demonstrate that the PMT improves the UWOC channel performance better than the APD. Besides, these results revealed that the BP stimulation at multiple depths deteriorates the BER performance heavily in comparison to the BP stimulation at single depth in the real sea environment. The results presented in this study provide valuable insights and information for accurate design and development of the UWOC system for the enhanced bioluminescence background noise conditions.

Physical-Layer Network Coding Enhanced Visible Light Communications Using RGB LEDs

Compared with traditional radio frequency (RF)-based techniques, the advantages of wider bandwidth, higher security, and stronger electromagnetic immunity (EMI) capability make visible light communications (VLC) a good candidate technology for the 6th generation (6G) wireless communications. Red, green, and blue (RGB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based VLC has become an important research branch due to its low price and high reliability. However, the saturation of photodiode (PD) caused by the ambient background light may seriously degrade the bit error rate (BER) performance of an RGB-VLC system's three spatially uncoupled information streams (i.e., red, green, and blue LEDs can transmit different data packets simultaneously) in practical applications. To mitigate the ambient light interference in point-to-point RGB-VLC systems, we propose, PNC-VLC, a network-coded scheme that uses two LEDs with the same color at the transmitter to transmit two different data streams and we make use of the naturally overlapped signals at the receiver to formulate physical-layer network coding (PNC). The adaptivity of PNC-VLC could effectively improve the BER degradation problem caused by the saturation of PD under the influence of ambient light. We conducted simulations based on the parameters of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products to prove the superiority of the PNC-VLC under the influence of four typical illuminants. Simulation results show that the PNC-VLC system can maintain a better and more stable system BER performance under different ambient background light conditions. Remarkably, with 2/3 throughput efficiency, PNC-VLC can bring 133.3% gain to the BER performance when compared with the traditional RGB-VLC systems under the Illuminant A interference model, making it a good option for VLC with unpredictable ambient background interferences.

Bit Error Rate Analysis Of Multiuser Massive MIMO Wireless System Using Linear Precoding

This paper presents bit error rate (BER) analysis of multiuser (MU) massive multiple input multiple out (MIMO) wireless system using linear precoding techniques. Considering the increasing demand for wireless communication that will provide seamless performance to meet users satisfaction, various precoding schemes have been developed and with massive MIMO projected to be a promising technology for 5G and next generation network. Therefore, this study was basically designed to examine the effect of linear zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) precoders on BER performance of MU massive MIMO system with up to 32 base station antennas (BS) and communicating with up to 5 user mobile terminals (MTs). A model that describes downlink operation of MU massive MIMO wireless communication system with spatial multiplexing employing linear ZF and MMSE precoders such that each user is equipped with single antenna MT resulting in overall access points of 5 antennas was developed in MATLAB. Computer simulations revealed that ZF outperformed MMSE. This observation was validated by similar report on massive MIMO in previous study.

Performance Analysis of MIMO Techniques for a Pyramid Receiver in an Indoor MIMO-VLC System

In an indoor multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) visible light communication (VLC) system, line of sight (LoS) channel links are present between a light-emitting diode (LED) based transmitter and a photodetector (PD) based receiver. The PDs in the receiver are closely packed resulting in a high channel correlation. To overcome channel correlation and improve the performance of the MIMO-VLC system, angle diversity receivers (ADRs) are commonly employed. The channel matrix entries depend on the normal vectors of the PDs, which in turn depend on the elevation angle (EA) of the PDs. Thus, by having normal vectors pointing in different directions, the channel correlation can be considerably reduced. This paper considers a special type of ADR called pyramid receiver (PR) and employs a 4x4 MIMO-VLC system. In this paper, different MIMO algorithms such as repetition coding (RC) and spatial multiplexing (SMP) are considered to exhibit and compare the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of the fixed and variable EA MIMO-VLC systems. The results show that an SMP-employed MIMO-VLC system outperforms the RC-employed MIMO-VLC system. SMP results in an spatial multiplexing gain that varies linearly with the number of LEDs whereas RC does not yield any spatial multiplexing gain. To attain the same spectral efficiency i.e. 4 bit/s/Hz, a larger signal constellation size is required for RC employed MIMO-VLC system to achieve the same BER as of an SMP employed MIMO-VLC system. Similarly, the BER performance of variable EA MIMO-VLC systems is better as compared to fixed EA MIMO-VLC systems.

Bit Error Rate Analysis of Physical Layer Network Coding Spatially Modulated Full-Duplex Nodes Based Bidirectional Wireless Relay Network

In this paper, Physical Layer Network coding (PLNC)-Spatially Modulated Full-Duplex (SMFD) nodes based two-way/bidirectional cooperative wireless relay network is proposed. The PLNC-SMFD-based system is a viable technology in the field of next-generation wireless networks to enhance spectral efficiency. In the proposed system model, both the source nodes and relay nodes are employed with 2 × 2 antenna configurations where 2 bits of information are exchanged between the source nodes through a relay node. Transmit antenna selection at the source nodes is based on the incoming bitstreams. For instance, the transmit antenna is selected at PLNC-SMFD nodes based on the data symbols of the Most Significant Bit (MSB). Whereas the selected transmit antenna sends the Least Significant Bit (LSB) bit of data symbol at any time instance. Further, the self-interference at the transmitting and receiving nodes is modeled as Gaussian with the thermal noise power as a variance. The Bit Error Rate (BER) analytical expressions for both the upper and lower bound are derived in a Rayleigh Fading channel background. It has been graphically shown that the BER performance of the proposed system analyzes the effect of self-interference.

Impact of Dynamic Traffic on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication Systems

In this article we studies the impact of dynamic vehicular traffic density on the signal-to-noise-ratio and the associated bit-error-rate (BER) performance of vehicle-to-vehicle visible light communication (V2V-VLC) systems. The article uses traffic data from the M42 and M6 motorways in the U.K. to investigate the probability of coexistence of other vehicles in the adjacent lanes, which induce interference and act as potential reflectors. The results show that the probability of coexistence of other vehicles in the adjacent lanes is lane-independent and it increases during the rush hours to 90%, while it decays to less than 10% during the off-peak and early morning hours. The intervehicular distance and the BER performance vary widely between different lanes and different periods of the day. The results also show that the BER performance of V2V-VLC system with non-line-of-sight (NLOS) component and with LOS component are comparable at rush hours. However, high BER values are predicted during the off-peak hours for NLOS components of the channel.