Vehicle-to-Vehicle Radio Channel Characterization in Urban Environment at 2.3 GHz and 5.25 GHz

In this paper, we present the channel measurement results of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) measurement campaign carried out in Oulu city center, Finland. The measurements were conducted with EB Propsound CS (TM) at 2.3 GHz and 5.25 GHz center frequencies. The antennas were installed on the roof of the vehicles and the measurements were performed for single-input multiple-output (SIMO) antenna configuration. The campaign results are presented in the form of path loss, delay spread (DS), maximum excess delay, the standard deviation of slow fading (SF) and K-factor. Furthermore, we propose the method for calculating correlation distance for large scale parameters in V2V channel and present the results for correlation distances of SF, DS and K-factor. The correlation distances less than 11 meters were observed.