Cooperative Full-Duplex V2V-VLC in Rectilinear and Curved Roadway Scenarios

• Main Authors: Diego Cuba-Zúñiga, Samuel B. Mafra, J. Ricardo Mejia-Salazar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: visible light communication (VLC); vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V); vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I); bit error rate (BER); full-duplex communication
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/13/3734

We study here the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) visible light communication (VLC) between two cars moving along different roadway scenarios: (i) a multiple-lane rectilinear roadway and (ii) a multiple-lane curvilinear roadway. Special emphasis was given to the implementation of full-duplex (FD) cooperative communication protocols to avoid communication disruption in the absence of a line-of-sight (LOS) channel. Importantly, we found that the cooperative FD V2V-VLC is promising for avoiding communication disruptions for cars traveling in realistic curvilinear roadways. Results in this work can be easily extended to the case of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), which can also be promising in cases of low-car-density environments.