用视觉与定位信息预判最佳波束,大幅降低车联网毫米波通信训练开销。
Multi-Modal Sensing Aided mmWave Beamforming for V2V Communications with Transformers
- 融合视觉与GPS数据,通过专用编码器提取特征并预测最优波束
- 在真实场景中实现77.58%的前15波束预测准确率,平均功率损失仅2.32 dB
- 相比标准方法减少76.56%波束搜索开销,适合动态车载环境应用
毫米波通信中波束成形技术用于克服固有的路径损耗,建立并维持可靠连接。然而,在高度动态的车载环境中,采用标准波束成形方法常导致较高的波束训练开销,降低可用通信时间,主要因需交换导频信号和进行全量波束测量。为此,我们提出一种多模态感知与融合学习框架,作为潜在替代方案以减少此类开销。该框架首先通过模态专用编码器分别从视觉和GPS坐标感知模态中提取特征,随后融合多模态特征,预测出最优的top-k波束,从而主动建立最佳视距链路。为验证所提框架的通用性,我们在真实世界多模态感知与通信数据集中的四个不同车对车(V2V)场景下进行了全面实验。结果显示,该框架在预测前15个波束时准确率达77.58%,优于单一模态,平均功率损失低至2.32 dB,且相较于标准方法,针对前15个波束的波束搜索空间开销减少了76.56%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Beamforming techniques are utilized in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication to address the inherent path loss limitation, thereby establishing and maintaining reliable connections. However, adopting standard defined beamforming approach in highly dynamic vehicular environments often incurs high beam training overheads and reduces the available airtime for communications, which is mainly due to exchanging pilot signals and exhaustive beam measurements. To this end, we present a multi-modal sensing and fusion learning framework as a potential alternative solution to reduce such overheads. In this framework, we first extract the features individually from the visual and GPS coordinates sensing modalities by modality specific encoders, and subsequently fuse the multimodal features to obtain predicted top-k beams so that the best line-of-sight links can be proactively established. To show the generalizability of the proposed framework, we perform a comprehensive experiment in four different vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) scenarios from real-world multi-modal sensing and communication dataset. From the experiment, we observe that the proposed framework achieves up to 77.58% accuracy on predicting top-15 beams correctly, outperforms single modalities, incurs roughly as low as 2.32 dB average power loss, and considerably reduces the beam searching space overheads by 76.56% for top-15 beams with respect to standard defined approach.
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