Citation

Wada T, Yamaguchi K, Okada H. IEICE Trans. Fundam. Electron. Comput. Sci. (Jpn. ed.) 2007; J90A(4): 315-329.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)

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Abstract

When road-to-vehicle communication systems are employed for continuous communication with vehicles, a problem can be encountered with the shadowing of large-size vehicles that blocks the communication path. When the shadowing occurs, the transmission quality is degraded because the received power on the vehicle falls rapidly. This article reports on a study of the road-to-vehicle communication system that incorporates transmitting site diversity for reducing the shadowing rate. The rice fading channel model is applied to the road-to-vehicle communication system. Through computer simulation, the study showed that the shadowing rate and frame error rate (FER) of the transmitting site diversity are a tenth less than that of single transmissions.