A Validated 5.9 GHz Non-Line-Of-Sight Path-Loss and Fading Model for Inter-Vehicle Communication
The setup and design of the measurement campaign, how results have been processed and an evaluation of the general ability of NLOS reception and influence factors is described in:
"Real-World Measurements of Non-Line-Of-Sight
Reception Quality for 5.9GHz IEEE 802.11p at Intersections"
The paper appeared at the 3rd International Nets4Cars Workshop 03/2011, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany,
and was published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6596/2011, p.189-202
It is available at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19786-4_17.
There is a website belonging to the previous paper:
http://dsn.tm.kit.edu/download/bmw/nlos_test/
You can find there a map based evaluation (via kml files) of all single runs.
This research was executed by
Thomas Mangel at BMW Group Research and Technology, in 2010/2011. Thanks for hosting goes to the Decentralized Systems and Network Services Research Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.