MIMO Vehicle to Vehicle Channels: An Experimental Study

Author

Ashour, M. ; Attia, A. ; ElMoslimany, A. ; Mohasseb, Y. ; El-Keyi, A.

Author_Institution

Nile Univ., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a platform for measuring the impulse response of wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channels is presented. The platform is developed using Rice University Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP) boards and utilized to perform an experimental study of V2V channels through conducting field measurements. A full characterization of MIMO-V2V channels is given via extracting the channel parameters from the acquired measurements. These parameters include the power-delay profile, the Doppler spectrum, and the MIMO transmit and receive correlation matrices of the channel. Numerical simulations are utilized to examine the effect of the channel parameters on the bit error rate (BER) performance of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based system.

Keywords

Doppler effect; MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; correlation methods; error statistics; vehicular ad hoc networks; BER performance; Doppler spectrum; MIMO transmit and receive correlation matrices; MIMO vehicle to vehicle channels; OFDM based system; WARP; bit error rate; channel parameters; impulse response; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; power delay profile; wireless MIMO V2V channels; wireless open access research platform; Antenna measurements; Correlation; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2014 IEEE 80th

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCFall.2014.6966054

Filename

6966054