A T-Intersection street model of MIMO vehicle-to-vehicle fading channel

In future, cars will form a network with other cars and roadside data systems to exchange information that alerts the driver on traffic congestion, road conditions, and accidents. It is expected that vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems will play an important role in intelligent transportation systems. MIMO systems employ multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas, combined with the opportunities opened by large vehicle surfaces on which multielement antennas can be placed, makes MIMO techniques very attractive for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In this paper, we propose an original T-Intersection street model for MIMO vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) fading channels, derived from this model, the analysis of statistical properties of transmit and the receive correlation functions are given, and some numerical results for the special case of isotropic scattering are presented. Our procedure adopted a special case to emulate the street scenario in studying the channel characteristics of MIMO V2V channels, and also a framework for future wireless intelligent transportation systems.