In Underground Vehicular Radio Channel Characterization

Vehicular communication is characterized by a dynamic environment and high mobility. In this paper we present a shadow fading model targeting system simulations based on real measurements performed in underground gallery. As first results, we present in this paper the delay spread statistics for each investigated environment. We also study the large-scale, small-scale fading and extract some time channel parameters such as root-mean-square (RMS) delay for a realistic underground propagation environment at 5.9 GHz. Since there are so far few published results for these confined environments, the results obtained can be useful for the deployment of vehicular-to-vehicular (V2V) and vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication systems inside underground mines galleries. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of KES International.