Performance analysis of a car-to-car visible light communication system

Pengfei Luo; Zabih Ghassemlooy; Hoa Le Minh; Edward Bentley; Andrew Burton; Xuan Tang

doi:10.1364/AO.54.001696

Performance analysis of a car-to-car visible light communication system

Pengfei Luo, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Hoa Le Minh, Edward Bentley, Andrew Burton, Xuan Tang

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This paper presents an analytical performance analysis of a car-to-car visible light communications system under different communication geometries during the daytime. A market-weighted headlamp beam-pattern model, measured dirt effects on light distribution, and the road-surface reflection model are employed. We consider both the line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight links and outline the relationship between the communication range and the system bit error rate (BER) performance. Results show that the wet road surface can help to increase the received optical power and improve the BER performance above a certain distance, and the communications coverage range can reach up to 70 m at a data rate of 50 Mbps when a photodetector is mounted on the car at a height of 0–0.2 m above the road surface.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1696-1706
Journal	Applied Optics
Volume	54
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.54.001696
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

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