Vehicular Systems for 5G and beyond 5G Channel Modelling for Performance Evaluation

Vehicular communications are envisioned to be an essential part in 5G and beyond 5G communication systems. Performance analysis in highly dynamic propagation environments that include vehicles, drones, and trains is an important task for designing and deploying 5G and beyond 5G communication systems. This chapter provides a statistical framework for channel characterization and performance evaluation of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2X) communication systems under different propagation conditions. In particular, the first- and second-order statistical measures of double-scattered (DSc) fading channels for V2V (vehicle-to-everything) wireless communication systems are addressed. The proposed system model is extended to include cooperative vehicular communications enabled through direct radio-frequency (RF) links, relay-assisted RF links as well as through redundant RF-free space optical (FSO) links.