V2V communication in a Cox field of vehicles

We study the effect of vehicle´s random locations in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. To account for a doubly stochastic property of a vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET), we model vehicle´s random locations as a stationary Cox process. The key wireless propagations - path loss, shadowing, and multipath fading - are also considered. The modeling and analysis resort to the H-transform theory to develop a unifying framework for characterizing V2V communication. We also analyze the maximal number of hops in a doubly stochastic VANET.