A Geometry-based Non-stationary Wideband MIMO Channel Model and Correlation Analysis for Vehicular Communication Systems

In this paper, we propose a novel two-dimensional (2D) non-stationary geometry-based stochastic model (GBSM) for wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station-to-vehicle (B2V) channels. The proposed model combines one-ring and multiple ellipses with time-variant parameters, which can capture the channel non-stationary characteristics more precisely. The corresponding stochastic simulation model is then developed with finite number of effective scatterers. In addition, the birth-death process is applied to determine the number of ellipses in the proposed model at different time instants. Afterwards, the time-variant parameters and time-variant space cross-correlation functions (CCFs) are derived and analyzed. The impact of different parameters on the space CCFs such as vehicle traffic density (VTD) is investigated. Numerical results illustrate that the simulation model has great agreement with the reference model at different time instants, which indicates the correctness of our derivations.