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Beam Alignment for Millimetre Wave Links with Motion Prediction of Autonomous Vehicles
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) require ultra-low end-to-end delays
and multi-gigabit-per-second data transmission. Millimetre Waves (mmWaves)
communications can fulfil these requirements. However, the increased mobility
of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), requires frequent beamforming -
thus introducing increased overhead. In this paper, a new beamforming algorithm
is proposed able to achieve overhead-free beamforming training. Leveraging from
the CAVs sensory data, broadcast with Dedicated Short Range Communications
(DSRC) beacons, the position and the motion of a CAV can be estimated and
beamform accordingly. To minimise the position errors, an analysis of the
distinct error components was presented. The network performance is further
enhanced by adapting the antenna beamwidth with respect to the position error.
Our algorithm outperforms the legacy IEEE 802.11ad approach proving it a viable
solution for the future ITS applications and services.Comment: Proc. of IET Colloquium on Antennas, Propagation & RF Technology for
Transport and Autonomous Platforms, to appea
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