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Propagation Models in Vehicular Communications

Journal

IEEE ACCESS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 15902-15913

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3049884

Keywords

Vehicular communications; channel modeling; propagation; mmWave

Funding

  1. School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey
  2. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, Gobierno de Espana (MCIU/AEI/FEDER,UE) [RTI2018-095499-B-C31, TEC2017-85529-C03-3R]

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This paper provides an updated overview of propagation channel models for vehicular communications, discussing the specific propagation characteristics of complex heterogeneous environments and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different channel models across various frequency bands. It also outlines future critical challenges and research directions for modeling reliable vehicular communications, such as the effects of vegetation, pedestrians, common scatterers, micro-mobility, and spherical wavefront.
In the advent of becoming reality, the era of autonomous vehicles is closer than ever, and with it, the need for faster and reliable wireless connections. The propagation channel determines the performance limits of wireless communications, and with the aid of empirical measurements, channel modeling is the best approach to predict and recreate how signal propagation conditions may perform. To this end, many different approaches and techniques have been implemented, from specific applications to general models, considering the characteristics of the environment (geometry-based or non-geometry-based) as well as seeking high performance algorithms in order to achieve good balance between accuracy and computational cost. This paper provides an updated overview of propagation channel models for vehicular communications, beginning with some specific propagation characteristics of these complex heterogeneous environments in terms of diverse communication scenarios, different combinations of link types, antenna placement/diversity, potentially high Doppler shifts, or non-stationarity, among others. The presented channel models are classified in four categories: empirical, non-geometry-based stochastic, geometry-based stochastic, and deterministic models, following the classical approach. The features and key concepts of the different vehicular communications channel models are presented, from sub 6 GHz to millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. The advantages and disadvantages of the main works in the area are discussed and compared in a comprehensive way, outlining their contributions. Finally, future critical challenges and research directions for modeling reliable vehicular communications are introduced, such as the effects of vegetation, pedestrians, common scatterers, micro-mobility or spherical wavefront, which in the context of the near future are presented as research opportunities.

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