A Novel mmWave Beam Alignment Approach for Beyond 5G Autonomous Vehicle Networks
Nowadays, directional communication represents a high potential solution for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication in Beyond-Fifth-Generation (B5G) vehicular networks, using the millimeter wave (mmWave) technique. Due to the high mobility in the vehicular environment and to ensure a higher data rate to establish a reliable V2X communication link, an efficient beam alignment is needed to point the optimal direction between the moving vehicle and the mmWave base station. To deal with this issue, the authors propose in this paper a new beam alignment method to select the optimal beam angle of Departure (AoD) from the mmWave base station, used further to transmit data toward the moving vehicle directly. The novelty of the authors' proposal concerns the suggestion of an original hybrid beam alignment approach, combining a 128-filters-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and 4-layers based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM). The selected angle is performed automatically for each vehicle position with the lowest error probability and the highest received signal power. The performance of the authors' proposed CNN-BiLSTM model was evaluated using popular regression metrics such as mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and root-mean-square error (RMSE). The results show that the authors' model achieved values of at least 0.0107, 0.0765, and 0.103 for MSE, MAE, and RMSE, respectively, outperforming other machine learning algorithms such as KNN regressor, SVR, BiLSTM, and CNN-LSTM.
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Authors:
- Benelmir, Rima
- Bitam, Salim
- Fowler, Scott
- Mellouk, Abdelhamid
- Publication Date: 2024-2
Language
- English
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- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 1597-1610
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- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Volume: 73
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- ISSN: 0018-9545
- Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Millimeter wave communication systems; Neural networks; Signal processing; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Vehicle to vehicle communications
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;
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- Accession Number: 01911207
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 8 2024 3:32PM