Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Link in California Path

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication in Automated Highway Systems is of critical importance. The radio link between the tightly packed vehicles in platoons suffers from multipath fading affects and thus significantly degrades the performance of the
communication Link. In this report we will flrst characterize the communication channel between vehicles in an AHS system and then determine how the link model impacts the link BER Specifically, we first consider ray-tracing models to characterize the fading affects and come up with a channel model. We then investigate statistical channel models to find parameters and distributions to match the statistical models to our ray-tracing models. Once we get a statistical channel model that fits our ray-tracing models, we use this closed form solution to do a BER performance analysis.