TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of fog and rain on the performance of vehicular visible light communications
AU - Elamassie, Mohammed
AU - Karbalayghareh, Mehdi
AU - Miramirkhani, Farshad
AU - Kizilirmak, Refik Caglar
AU - Uysal, Murat
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of R. C. Kizilirmak was supported by the research grant from Nazarbayev University. The work of M. Uysal was supported by the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TUBITAK) under Grant 215E311.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/20
Y1 - 2018/7/20
N2 - In Intelligent Transportation Systems, visible light communication (VLC) has emerged as a powerful candidate to enable wireless connectivity in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) links. While VLC has been studied intensively in the context of indoor communications, its application to vehicular networking is relatively new. In this paper, we carry out a comprehensive channel modeling study to quantify the effect of rain and fog on a V2V link with a high-beam headlamp acting as the transmitter. Taking advantage of advanced ray tracing features, we first develop a path loss model for V2V link as a function of distance under different weather conditions. Then, we use this expression to determine the maximum achievable distance to ensure a given bit error rate. We further investigate the deployment of relay- assisted systems to extend transmission ranges. Extensive numerical results are presented to corroborate our findings.
AB - In Intelligent Transportation Systems, visible light communication (VLC) has emerged as a powerful candidate to enable wireless connectivity in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) links. While VLC has been studied intensively in the context of indoor communications, its application to vehicular networking is relatively new. In this paper, we carry out a comprehensive channel modeling study to quantify the effect of rain and fog on a V2V link with a high-beam headlamp acting as the transmitter. Taking advantage of advanced ray tracing features, we first develop a path loss model for V2V link as a function of distance under different weather conditions. Then, we use this expression to determine the maximum achievable distance to ensure a given bit error rate. We further investigate the deployment of relay- assisted systems to extend transmission ranges. Extensive numerical results are presented to corroborate our findings.
KW - Visible light communications
KW - ray tracing
KW - vehicular communications.
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U2 - 10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417738
DO - 10.1109/VTCSpring.2018.8417738
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050960906
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2018 IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 87th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Spring 2018
Y2 - 3 June 2018 through 6 June 2018
ER -