2023/08/14 by Gouranga Charan, Muhammad Alrabeiah, Charan, Gouranga +5 · 4 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #Speech and Audio Processing #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.06868
openalex publication_date 2023/08/14 · openalex created_date 2023/08/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Leveraging sensory information to aid the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sub-terahertz (sub-THz) beam selection process is attracting increasing interest. This sensory data, captured for example by cameras at the basestations, has the potential of significantly reducing the beam sweeping overhead and enabling highly-mobile applications. The solutions developed so far, however, have mainly considered single-candidate scenarios, i.e., scenarios with a single candidate user in the visual scene, and were evaluated using synthetic datasets. To address these limitations, this paper extensively investigates the sensing-aided beam prediction problem in a real-world multi-object vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) scenario and presents a comprehensive machine learning-based framework. In particular, this paper proposes to utilize visual and positional data to predict the optimal beam indices as an alternative to the conventional beam sweeping approaches. For this, a novel user (transmitter) identification solution has been developed, a key step in realizing sensing-aided multi-candidate and multi-user beam prediction solutions. The proposed solutions are evaluated on the large-scale real-world DeepSense 6G dataset. Experimental results in realistic V2I communication scenarios indicate that the proposed solutions achieve close to 100% top-5 beam prediction accuracy for the scenarios with single-user and close to 95% top-5 beam prediction accuracy for multi-candidate scenarios. Furthermore, the proposed approach can identify the probable transmitting candidate with more than 93% accuracy across the different scenarios. This highlights a promising approach for nearly eliminating the beam training overhead in mmWave/THz communication systems.