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- Abbas, Taimoor, et al.
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A Measurement Based Shadow Fading Model for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Network Simulations
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. - : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. - 1687-5869 .- 1687-5877.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) propagation channel has significant implications on the design and performance of novel communication protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Extensive research efforts have been made to develop V2V channel models to be implemented in advanced VANET system simulators for performance evaluation. The impact of shadowing caused by other vehicles has, however, largely been neglected in most of the models, as well as in the system simulations. In this paper we present a shadow fading model targeting system simulations based on real measurements performed in urban and highway scenarios. The measurement data is separated into three categories, line-of-sight (LOS), obstructed line-of-sight (OLOS) by vehicles, and non-line-of-sight due to buildings, with the help of video information recorded during the measurements. It is observed that vehicles obstructing the LOS induce an additional average attenuation of about 10 dB in the received signal power. An approach to incorporate the LOS/OLOS model into existing VANET simulators is also provided. Finally, system level VANET simulation results are presented, showing the difference between the LOS/OLOS model and a channel model based on Nakagami-m fading.
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- Abbas, Taimoor, et al.
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Directional Analysis of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Propagation Channels
- 2011
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Ingår i: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a double directional analysis of vehicle-to-vehicle channel measurements conducted in three different traffic scenarios. Using a high-resolution algorithm, we derive channel parameters like Angle-of-Arrival (AOA), Angle-of-Departure (AOD), propagation delay and Doppler shift and identify underlying propagation mechanisms by combining these estimates with maps of the measurement sites. The results show that first-order reflections from a small number of interacting objects can account for a large part of the received signal in the absence of line-of-sight (LOS). This effect is especially pronounced in the two traffic scenarios where the road is not lined with buildings. We also found that the direction spread is low (and conversely that the antenna correlation is high) in such scenarios, which suggests that beam forming rather than diversity-based methods should be used if multiple antenna elements are used. The situation is reversed, however, in the third scenario, a narrow urban intersection, where a larger number of higher-order reflections is found to result in a higher direction spread.
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- Abbas, Taimoor, et al.
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Directional Analysis of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Propagation in Different Traffic Environments
- 2010
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing].
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a double directional analysis of vehicle-to-vehicle channel measurements conducted in two different traffic environments. Using a high-resolution algorithm, we derive channel parameters like angle-of- arrival, angle-of-departure, propagation delay and Doppler’s spread and identify underlying propagation mechanisms by combining these estimates with maps of the measurement sites. The results show that single-bounce interaction with static objects is the dominating effect in the absence of line-of-sight, and that the contribution from other vehicles is small. We also find that in the absence of line-of-sight the direction spread at both sides of link is large which indicates possible diversity gain using multi-antenna arrangements.
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- Abbas, Taimoor, et al.
(författare)
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Initial Investigation to study the Effect of Antenna Placement in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
- 2011
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Ingår i: [Host publication title missing].
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper we present an analysis of the effects of antenna placement on the radio channel properties for Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications based on measurements performed in three different propagation scenarios; highway, urban and rural. Four omni-directional antennas were mounted at four different positions: roof, bumper, left-side mirror and inside windscreen of two standard station wagons (Volvo V70). The channel transfer functions were measured for all antenna combinations with a wideband MIMO channel sounder. The results from this initial analysis show that the antenna mounted on the left-side mirror outperforms other antennas when vehicles are moving in convoy and are aligned well to each other. Whereas, if the TX and RX are moving in opposite direction, i.e., towards each other, bumper antenna shows good performance as long as LOS is available in between the antenna elements. In total some kind of diversity arrangement with complementary antennas seems to be the preferred solution, to decrease the effect of shadowing.
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- Abbas, Taimoor, et al.
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Measurement-Based Analysis: The Effect of Complementary Antennas and Diversity on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication
- 2013
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Ingår i: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. - 1548-5757. ; 12:1, s. 309-312
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems the antennas are prone to shadowing and the antenna gain is dissimilar even for same antenna elements if mounted at different positions on the car. This paper investigates the impact of antenna placement based on channel measurements performed with four omni-directional antennas mounted on the roof, bumper, windscreen and left-side mirror of the transmitter and receiver cars. Results suggest to use antennas with complementary characteristics, e.g., antennas on each side, mounted on the roof and bumper, to exploit diversity and decrease the effect of shadowing.
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- Almers, Peter, et al.
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Antenna subset selection in measured indoor channels
- 2007
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Ingår i: IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. - : Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). - 1751-8725. ; 1, s. 1092-1100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Antenna subset selection can greatly reduce the implementation complexity of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems while retaining most of their benefits. This paper investigates the diversity gain and capacity of such systems in wireless personal area networks. Considered scenarios include both the communication between access point to a laptop, and between two handheld devices. We analyse the performance of different antenna selection algorithms and signal combining methods in measured dual-polarised narrowband and wideband propagation channels. We find that line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight situations have fairly similar behaviour. Different polarisations result in similar signal-to-noise ratio gains when the multiple antennas are used for diversity, but result in noticeably different capacities in spatial-multiplexing systems. We also find that radiofrequency (RF) preprocessing of the signals is less effective for handheld handsets with non-uniform antenna arrangements than for uniform linear arrays. For communications between handheld devices, simple selection (of one out of four antennas) shows extremely high performance gains compared to no-selection. Finally, we compare bulk selection (same antenna subset is used for all frequency sub-channels) to per-tone selection (different antenna subsets can be used for each frequency sub-channel) for wideband channels. Bulk selection together with RF preprocessing performs almost as well as per-tone selection for some scenarios.
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- Almers, Peter, et al.
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Exercises
- 2005
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Ingår i: Wireless Communications. - 9780470848883 - 047084888X - 0470848871 ; , s. 561-593
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bernadó, Laura, et al.
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Complexity reduction for vehicular channel estimation using the filter-divergence measure
- 2011
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Ingår i: 2010 Conference Record of the Forty Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. - 9781424497225 - 9781424497218
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In vehicular communications systems the channel estimation filter suppresses the additive noise in channel estimates obtained from pilot symbols. Vehicular channels show local stationarity for a finite region in time and frequency, only. Such a process can be divided into consecutive stationarity regions, allowing to calculate a Wiener filter. We analyze the increase of the mean square error (MSE) when using a mismatched Wiener filter calculated for a past stationarity region. The MSE increase of the filter is related to a new metric, the filter divergence directly observable at the receiver side. By accepting an increase of MSE, measured by the filter-divergence, the same filter coefficients can be used for several stationarity regions, allowing computational complexity reduction in a real system.
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