Composite {\alpha}-{\mu} Based DSRC Channel Model Using Large Data Set of RSSI Measurements

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel composite {}-{} based channel model for vehicular networks using large RSSI datasets, improving accuracy in large- and small-scale modeling and validating the model with empirical data and simulations.

Contribution

It proposes a new {}-{} fading model for vehicular channels and a method to accurately characterize path-loss, validated through extensive measurements and simulations.

Findings

{}-{} distribution outperforms Nakagami-m in goodness-of-fit tests.

The proposed model accurately captures large-scale and small-scale fading behaviors.

Implementation in ns-3 demonstrates practical applicability in network simulations.

Abstract

Channel modeling is essential for design and performance evaluation of numerous protocols in vehicular networks. In this work, we study and provide results for largescale and small-scale modeling of communication channel in dense vehicular networks. We first propose an approach to remove the effect of fading on deterministic part of the large-scale model and verify its accuracy using a single transmitter-receiver scenario. Two-ray model is then utilized for path-loss characterization and its parameters are derived from the empirical data based on a newly proposed method. Afterward, we use {\alpha}-{\mu} distribution to model the fading behavior of vehicular networks for the first time, and validate its precision by Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) goodness-of-fit test. To this end, the significantly better performance of utilizing {\alpha}-{\mu} distribution over the most adopted fading distribution in the vehicular channels literature, i.e. Nakagami-m, in terms of passing K-S test has been investigated and statistically verified in this paper. A large received signal strength indicator (RSSI) dataset from a measurement campaign is used to evaluate our claims. Moreover, the whole model is implemented in a reliable discrete event network simulator which is widely used in the academic and industrial research for network analysis, i.e. network simulator-3 (ns-3), to show the outcome of the proposed model in the presence of upper layer network protocols.