Vehicular VLC: A Ray Tracing Study Based on Measured Radiation Patterns of Commercial Taillights

Hossien B. Eldeeb, Elizabeth Eso, Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo, Stanislav Zvanovec, Murat Uysal, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Juna Sathian

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9374484
Pages (from-to)904-907
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume33
Issue number16
Early online date10 Mar 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Aug 2021

Keywords

  • visible light communications
  • asymmetrical radiation pattern
  • ray tracing
  • commercial taillights
  • path loss
  • Visible light communications
  • Solid modeling
  • Loss measurement
  • Visible light communication
  • Power measurement
  • Optical variables measurement
  • Ray tracing
  • Antenna radiation patterns

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