Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication based collision avoidance systems detect if two vehicles are on a collision course, which are particularly useful in the absence of line-of-sight (LOS) owing to buildings, roadside infrastructures, and road bending. This paper presents an empirical study of V2V propagation channels in two suburban cross-road scenarios, where vehicles are either moving in the same direction and separate each other, or passing each other in opposite directions at the crossing. The quasi-stationarity interval is characterized using correlation matrix distance (CMD). Angular dispersions are found to be significantly affected by the type of cross-road and the presence of a LOS. By comparing the results of the different cross-roads, it is found that the angular dispersion is large in the first type of cross-road. By contrast, in the second type of cross-road, small angular dispersion is observed due to the road bending and obstruction by roadside trees.
He, R., Renaudin, O., Kolmonen, V.-M., Haneda, K., Zhong, Z., Hubert, S., & Oestges, C. (2015). Angular Dispersion Characterization of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel in Cross-Road Scenarios. Proceedings 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). Published. 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Lisbon, Portugal. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/255086