Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 87479-87493Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2922064
Keywords
MmWave; beam alignment; situational awareness; machine learning
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- U.S. Department of Transportation through the Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning (D-STOP) Tier 1 University Transportation Center
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Establishing and tracking beams in millimeter-wave (mmWave) vehicular communication is a challenging task. Large antenna arrays and narrow beams introduce significant system overhead configuring the beams using exhaustive beam search. In this paper, we propose to learn the optimal beam pair index by exploiting the locations and types of the receiver vehicle and its neighboring vehicles (situational awareness), leveraging machine learning classification and past beam training data. We formulate the mmWave beam selection as a multi-class classification problem based on hand-crafted features that capture the situational awareness in different coordinates. We then provide a comprehensive comparison of the different classification models and various levels of situational awareness. Furthermore, we examine several practical issues in the implementation: localization is susceptible to inaccuracy; situational awareness at the base station (BS) can be outdated due to vehicle mobility and limited location reporting frequencies; the situational awareness may be incomplete since vehicles could be invisible to the BS if they are not connected. To demonstrate the scalability of the proposed beam selection solution in the large antenna array regime, we propose two solutions to recommend multiple beams and exploit an extra phase of beam sweeping among the recommended beams. The numerical results show that situational awareness-assisted beam selection using machine learning is able to provide beam prediction, with accuracy that increases with more complete knowledge of the environment.
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