Empirical Investigation of the LOS Propagation Characteristics on an Undulating Road for Millimeter Wave Inter-Vehicle Communication

We investigated the radio propagation characteristics for line-of-sight (LOS) inter-vehicle communication (IVC) at 60GHz on an actual road with an undulating surface. Radio propagation tests between two moving vehicles were carried out on a test course. From this, it was found that the measured received power on the actual road and the results calculated for a flat road approximately follow logarithmic normal distributions. To investigate this phenomenon in detail, a propagation test between two stationary vehicles on a road was performed. Furthermore, calculations using geometrical optics taking road undulation into consideration demonstrated that undulation in the road can cause variations in the received power that follow a logarithmic normal distribution. Finally, the received power for moving vehicles on an undulating road was calculated using the model.

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