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Vehicular VLC: A Ray Tracing Study Based on Measured Radiation Patterns of Commercial Taillights
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 33(16):904-907 Aug, 2021
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Antenna radiation patterns
Ray tracing
Visible light communication
Power measurement
Loss measurement
Solid modeling
Optical variables measurement
Visible light communications
asymmetrical radiation pattern
ray tracing
path loss
commercial taillights
Language
ISSN
1041-1135
1941-0174
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.