Antenna selection (AS) is considered as an ideal approach for improving the performance of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, while satisfying the hardware and power limitations that exist in vehicles. However, the promised gain over single antenna schemes is affected by the fast varying wireless channel, since AS is frequently performed using outdated versions of the signal-to-noise ratio. In this paper, we propose an AS scheme that exploits the stationarity of large scale fading. In particular, by adopting shadowing information as an AS criterion, the negative consequences of the outdated channel state information (CSI) can be alleviated, since large-scale fading varies more slowly as compared to small-scale fading. The performance of the proposed technique is analyzed using the criterion of outage probability. It is shown that the new scheme outperforms the corresponding one that is based on outdated CSI, especially in scenarios with mild channel conditions, in terms of fading/shadowing severity. Moreover, empirical results have been used to verify the effectiveness of the considered shadowing model.
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