Stationarity of Multiband Channels for OTFS-Based Intelligent Transportation Systems

Abstract

The development of communication systems for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) relies on their performance in high-mobility scenarios. Such scenarios introduce rapid fluctuations in wireless channel properties. As a promising solution for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) approach has emerged. Nevertheless, the performance of OTFS systems is closely tied to time- and frequency diversity of the wireless propagation channel. However, there is a lack of understanding of the stationarity of the wireless channels, especially in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands. In this paper, we address this research gap by conducting a comprehensive stationarity analysis of measured sub-6 GHz and mmWave high-speed wireless channels. We evaluate the spatial stationarity of a scenario, where the transmitter is moving at high velocity. Furthermore, we investigate the influence of the transmit antenna orientation on the channel spatial stationarity. We could show that the spatial stationarity is proportional to the wavelength.