Introduction and Preliminary Experimental Results of Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Systems

At first, this paper presents an overview on the background and technical merits of wireless access for vehicular environments (WAVE) systems. Next, a WAVE testbed was setup and the preliminary experimental results are reported. The WAVE testbed operates at the center frequency of 5.9 GHz and adopts a signal format defined by a draft of the IEEE 802.11p standard. Based on the experimental data captured in a typical vehicle-to-roadside access point environment, related channel impulse responses and capacities are extracted and analyzed