Impact of Vehicle Headlights Radiation Pattern on Dynamic Vehicular VLC Channel

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  • Farah Mahdi Alsalami
    Coventry University
  • Nurudeen Aigoro
    Coventry University
  • Abdulrahman Abdullahi Mahmoud
    Coventry University
  • Zahir Ahmad
    Coventry University
  • Paul A. Haigh
    University College LondonNewcastle University
  • Olivier Haas
    Coventry University, UK
  • Sujan Rajbhandari
    SmartLiFi, Coventry
This article develops a statistical large-scale fading (path loss) model of a dynamic vehicular visible light communication (VVLC) system. The proposed model combines the impact of inter-vehicle spacing and the radiation intensity distribution as a function of the irradiance angle which changes with the traffic conditions. Three models (Lambertian, Gaussian, and empirical) are utilized to examine the impact of vehicles headlights radiation pattern on the statistical path loss of VVLC system. The analytical model of channel path loss is validated by Monte Carlo simulation with the headlight model simulated with a raytracing software. The path loss values of the Gaussian model differ by 2 dB compared to the Lambertian model, irrespective of the traffic conditions while it differs by 24.6 dB during late night and 8.15 dB during rush hours compared to the empirical model of a Toyota Altis headlight. This variation shows that the radiation intensity distribution should be modelled for each vehicle's headlights from each manufacturer to ensure accurate VVLC channel model. The proposed Gaussian model provides a close approximation to describe such radiation pattern and can easily be adapted to model for different manufacturers' headlights.

Keywords

  • Antenna radiation patterns, Channel models, Computational modeling, Fading channels, Loss measurement, Outdoor channel model, Roads, Vehicle dynamics, statistical communication channel model, vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, visible light communication (VLC)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to) 3162 - 3168
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume39
Issue number10
Early online date9 Mar 2021
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Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2021
Externally publishedYes
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