Research Article

A General 3D Nonstationary Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channel Model Allowing 3D Arbitrary Trajectory and 3D-Shaped Antenna Array

Table 1

Definitions of channel parameters.

Valid path number

The nth path power and delay
MThe number of subpaths
Location vectors of transmitter antenna element s and receiver antenna element u, respectively
Location vectors of i and , , respectively
Velocity vectors of i and , , respectively
Speeds of i and , , respectively
Traveling azimuth angles of i and , , respectively
Traveling elevation angles of i and , , respectively
Spherical unit vector of i along ray m of cluster n,
Azimuth and elevation departure angles along ray m of cluster n, respectively
Azimuth and elevation arrival angles along ray m of cluster n, respectively