Channel Characteristics for Vehicle Magnetic Induction Communication With Road Disturbance

The channel of vehicle magnetic induction (VMI) communication is unexplored in the previous studies. To study such channel, we propose a vehicle antenna vibration model with Gaussian road disturbance inputs (GRDI) characterized by the boundary Chi-square distribution. By them, we derive the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the VMI fading channel. We analyze the outage performance for one-hop and multi-hop links. We find that the one-hop VMI link achieves a better outage performance under strong signals. Simulation results substantiate the accuracy of the analysis.