On the Applicability of FEC-Coding on Rayleigh Fading Channels in Inter-Vehicle Communication

This paper deals with the applicability of FEC coding in short range mobile radio networks for inter vehicle communication where sender and receiver are in motion. A propagation model is introduced which is composed of free path propagation loss for the mean received power added by a Rayleigh distributed short term fading. Evaluations of the statistical channel behaviour are the basis for investigations of suitable FEC codes. We investigate several FEC-codes with different coderates. We will show that the word error probability can be reduced significantly.