High-Rate Uninterrupted Internet of Vehicle Communications in Highways: Dynamic Blockage Avoidance and CSIT Acquisition
Journal article, 2022

In future wireless networks, one of the use cases of interest is the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Here, IoV refers to two different functionalities, namely, serving the in-vehicle users and supporting the connected-vehicle functionalities, where both can be well provided by the transceivers installed on top of vehicles. Such dual functionality of on-vehicle transceivers implies strict rate and reliability requirements, for which one may need to communicate at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. However, IoV communication at mmWave requires up-to-date channel state information (CSI) and blockage avoidance. In this article, we incorporate the recently proposed concept of predictor antennas (PAs) into a large-scale cooperative PA (LSCPA) setup where both temporal blockages and CSI out-dating are avoided via base stations (BSs)/vehicles cooperation. Summarizing the ongoing standardization progress enabling IoV communications, we present the potential and challenges of the LSCPA setup, and compare the effect of cooperative and non-cooperative schemes on the performance of IoV links. As we show, BS cooperation and blockage/CSI prediction can boost the performance of IoV links remarkably.

Author

Hao Guo

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Behrooz Makki

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

0163-6804 (ISSN) 15581896 (eISSN)

Vol. 60 7 44-50

A flagship for B5G/6G vision and intelligent fabric of technology enablers connecting human, physical, and digital worlds (Hexa-X )

European Commission (EC) (EC/HE/101120332), 2023-10-01 -- 2027-09-30.

European Commission (EC) (EC/2020/101015956), 2021-01-01 -- 2023-06-30.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.003.2100852

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12/27/2022