Simulator Design for Interference Analysis in Complex Automotive Multi-User Traffic Scenarios

Since the number of radar sensors per vehicle has been increasing in order to improve the performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, mutual interference has become one of the most important challenges for near future automotive radar systems. Depending on the sensor parameters and the diverse properties of the traffic scenario, the interference effects can significantly vary. The effort to measure and appraise the interference in real traffic scenarios leads to the importance of designing a tool suited to simulate and analyze the interference. This paper presents a fast simulator capable of modeling, estimating, and evaluating the effects of interference in complex multi-user traffic scenarios. A statistical analysis of the interference in a proposed scenario is performed in order to validate the presented simulator.