Published January 1, 2021 | Version v1
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Vehicular VLC: A Ray Tracing Study Based on Measured Radiation Patterns of Commercial Taillights

  • 1. Ozyegin Univ, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, TR-34794 Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2. Northumbria Univ, Fac Engn & Environm, Opt Commun Res Grp, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, Tyne & Wear, England
  • 3. Tech Univ Berlin, Dept Telecommun Syst, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
  • 4. Czech Tech Univ, Fac Elect Engn, Dept Electromagnet Field, Prague 16636, Czech Republic

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In this letter, we investigate the performance of vehicular visible light communications based on the radiation patterns of different commercial taillights (TLs) using non-sequential ray tracing simulations. Our simulation results indicate a significant variation in the path loss compared with Lambertian model. Based on the ray tracing results, we propose a new path loss model as a function of the propagation distance considering the asymmetrical radiation pattern of TLs. We use this model to derive the attainable transmission distance. We further present the delay spread for various vehicular communication scenarios to demonstrate the effect of neighboring vehicles.

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