Vehicular visible light communication (V2LC) is expected to complement radio frequency (RF) technologies for higher reliability in vehicular connectivity. Since high mobility makes the line-of-sight V2LC channel very dynamic, an adaptive physical layer (PHY) design is required for realizing a rate-optimal and reliable V2LC system. Existing studies on adaptive PHY designs have mostly considered indoor scenarios with low mobility and require a feedback channel for both reporting the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to the transmitter and channel equalization (CE), which increases system complexity and introduces overhead. This paper presents a novel low-complexity adaptive PHY design that provides rate-optimal and reliable V2LC without a feedback channel. The proposed design utilizes a priori measurements of the BER with respect to SNR, which are static for V2LC on the road. SNR is predicted in real-time based on the relative locations of the transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) vehicles using a path loss model based on a priori measurements of the SNR-distance relationship and the polar beam pattern for a given TX/RX pair, in a given setting. The proposed design is validated via night-time experiments with On-Off-Keying (OOK), 4-Pulse-Position Modulation (4-PPM) and Direct Current-Biased Optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM). The proposed location-aware adaptive PHY design can be expanded for general reliable rate-optimal V2LC use by updating the path loss model with additional measurements for different settings.


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    Title :

    Location-Aware Adaptive Physical Layer Design for Vehicular Visible Light Communication


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    Publication date :

    2019-12-01


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    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


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    English



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