Experimental Characterization of V2I Radio Channel in a Suburban Environment

This paper describes the results of the experimental vehicle-to-infrastructure radio channel sounding campaign at 1.35 GHz performed in a suburban environment in Lille, France. Based on the channel measurements acquired in vertical and horizontal polarizations, a multitaper estimator is used to estimate the local scattering function for sequential regions in time, from which Doppler and delay power profiles are deduced. We analyze second order statistics such as delay and Doppler spreads, as well as small-scale fading amplitude. A similar behavior between both polarizations is observed. In both cases, the statistical distributions of the RMS delay and Doppler spreads are best fitted to a lognormal model. The small-scale fading of the strongest path is found to be Rician distributed, while the later delay taps show occasional worse-than-Rayleigh behavior.

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