Modeling and simulation of small-scale fading for vehicle-to-vehicle communication

Small-scale fading has its origin in the constructive and destructive superposition of electromagnetic waves. The fading process can be modeled by adding vectors in the complex plane using the so-called phasor model. Simulation results showed that this modeling allows very accurate reproduction of measured fading processes. The parameters of the phasor model can be obtained from measured Doppler power spectra. Statistical distributions of these parameters are offered for the oncoming traffic scenario in urban environment.