483 research outputs found
Sub-6GHz Assisted MAC for Millimeter Wave Vehicular Communications
Sub-6GHz vehicular communications (using DSRC, ITS-G5 or C-V2X) have been
developed to support active safety applications. Future connected and automated
driving applications can require larger bandwidth and higher data rates than
currently supported by sub-6GHz V2X technologies. This has triggered the
interest in developing mmWave vehicular communications. However, solutions are
necessary to solve the challenges resulting from the use of high-frequency
bands and the high mobility of vehicles. This paper contributes to this active
research area by proposing a sub-6GHz assisted mmWave MAC that decouples the
mmWave data and control planes. The proposal offloads mmWave MAC control
functions (beam alignment, neighbor identification and scheduling) to a
sub-6GHz V2X technology, and reserves the mmWave channel for the data plane.
This approach improves the operation of the MAC as the control functions
benefit from the longer range, and the broadcast and omnidirectional
transmissions of sub-6GHz V2X technologies. This simulation study demonstrates
that the proposed sub-6GHz assisted mmWave MAC reduces the control overhead and
delay, and increases the spatial sharing compared to a mmWave-only
configuration (IEEE 802.11ad tailored to vehicular networks). The proposed MAC
is here evaluated for V2V communications using 802.11p for the control plane
and 802.11ad for the data plane. However, the proposal is not restricted to
these technologies, and can be adapted to other technologies such as C-V2X and
5G NR.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Robust Location-Aided Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO
Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential
approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO
(mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the
estimation process, the spatial information obtained at the base station (BS)
and the user (UE) is likely to be noisy, degrading beam alignment performance.
In this paper, we introduce a robust beam alignment framework in order to
exhibit resilience with respect to this problem. We first recast beam alignment
as a decentralized coordination problem where BS and UE seek coordination on
the basis of correlated yet individual position information. We formulate the
optimum beam alignment solution as the solution of a Bayesian team decision
problem. We then propose a suite of algorithms to approach optimality with
reduced complexity. The effectiveness of the robust beam alignment procedure,
compared with classical designs, is then verified on simulation settings with
varying location information accuracies.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures. The short version of this paper has been
accepted to IEEE Globecom 201
Throughput and Robustness Guaranteed Beam Tracking for mmWave Wireless Networks
With the increasing demand of ultra-high-speed wireless communications and
the existing low frequency band (e.g., sub-6GHz) becomes more and more crowded,
millimeter-wave (mmWave) with large spectra available is considered as the most
promising frequency band for future wireless communications. Since the mmWave
suffers a serious path-loss, beamforming techniques shall be adopted to
concentrate the transmit power and receive region on a narrow beam for
achieving long distance communications. However, the mobility of users will
bring frequent beam handoff, which will decrease the quality of experience
(QoE). Therefore, efficient beam tracking mechanism should be carefully
researched. However, the existing beam tracking mechanisms concentrate on
system throughput maximization without considering beam handoff and link
robustness. This paper proposes a throughput and robustness guaranteed beam
tracking mechanism for mobile mmWave communication systems which takes account
of both system throughput and handoff probability. Simulation results show that
the proposed throughput and robustness guaranteed beam tracking mechanism can
provide better performance than the other beam tracking mechanisms.Comment: Accepted by IEEE/CIC ICCC 201
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