Multi-Camera View Based Proactive BS Selection and Beam Switching for V2X

TL;DR

This paper introduces a multi-camera view based proactive approach for base station selection and beam switching in V2X communication, improving prediction accuracy and communication quality in mmWave networks.

Contribution

It proposes a novel multi-modal feature extraction and multi-task learning framework for proactive BS selection and beam switching, enhancing robustness and accuracy.

Findings

Achieves higher prediction accuracy in outdoor intersection scenarios.

Improves achievable data rates compared to existing methods.

Demonstrates robustness under various environmental conditions.

Abstract

Due to the short wavelength and large attenuation of millimeter-wave (mmWave), mmWave BSs are densely distributed and require beamforming with high directivity. When the user moves out of the coverage of the current BS or is severely blocked, the mmWave BS must be switched to ensure the communication quality. In this paper, we proposed a multi-camera view based proactive BS selection and beam switching that can predict the optimal BS of the user in the future frame and switch the corresponding beam pair. Specifically, we extract the features of multi-camera view images and a small part of channel state information (CSI) in historical frames, and dynamically adjust the weight of each modality feature. Then we design a multi-task learning module to guide the network to better understand the main task, thereby enhancing the accuracy and the robustness of BS selection and beam switching. Using the outputs of all tasks, a prior knowledge based fine tuning network is designed to further increase the BS switching accuracy. After the optimal BS is obtained, a beam pair switching network is proposed to directly predict the optimal beam pair of the corresponding BS. Simulation results in an outdoor intersection environment show the superior performance of our proposed solution under several metrics such as predicting accuracy, achievable rate, harmonic mean of precision and recall.