Envelope Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration of Nonisotropic Vehicle-to-Vehicle Ricean Fading Channels

• Published in: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 62 - 72
• Main Authors: Xiang Cheng, Cheng-Xiang Wang, Bo Ai, Aggoune, Hadi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.02.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Average fade duration (AFD); Channels; Closed-form solutions; Density; Doppler effect; Educational institutions; Fading; level crossing rate (LCR); Level crossings; Mathematical model; Nickel; nonisotropic scattering environments; Resultants; Ricean fading; Scattering; Spreads; Stochastic models; Utilities; vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channels
• ISSN: 1524-9050; 1558-0016
• DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2274618

This paper proposes a generic geometry-based stochastic model for nonisotropic scattering vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) Ricean fading channels. With the proposed model, the level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) are derived. The resultant expressions are sufficiently general and subsume many well-known existing LCRs and AFDs as special cases. The derived LCR and AFD are further investigated in terms of some important parameters, e.g., the shape of the scattering region (two-ring or ellipse), mean angle, angle spread, and directions of movement of the Tx and Rx (same or opposite direction). More importantly, in this paper, the impact of the vehicular traffic density on the LCR and AFD for nonisotropic scattering V2V Ricean fading channels is investigated for the first time. Excellent agreement is observed between the theoretical LCRs/AFDs and corresponding measured data, thus demonstrating the validity and utility of the proposed model.