Section: New Results

Visible light communications for platooning control

Participants : Mohammad Abualhoul, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Mohamed Marouf, Fawzi Nashashibi.

While V2V communications is requisite for platooning stability, the existing radio communications technologies suffer from poor performance in highly dense road scenarios, which are exactly to be created for platooning. Targeting this issue, we study the applicability of visible light communications (VLC) for information exchange between the platoon members [20] , [35] . Because the existing studies on VLC mainly focus on indoor applications or for communications from traffic light to vehicle, the performances of VLC for V2V is not clear. In this work, we develop a complete VLC channel and noise model by taking account of the key parameters including background noise and incidence angle. Our studies show that it is feasible to achieve up to 7 meters line of sight communication range even in the presence of optical noise at significant levels and with up to 60 degree of road curvature.