학술논문

A High-Capacity MAC Protocol for UAV-Enhanced RIS-Assisted V2X Architecture in 3-D IoT Traffic
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Internet of Things Journal IEEE Internet Things J. Internet of Things Journal, IEEE. 11(13):23711-23726 Jul, 2024
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Vehicle-to-everything
Media Access Protocol
Autonomous aerial vehicles
Resource management
Internet of Things
Delays
Protocols
Medium access control (MAC)
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
Language
ISSN
2327-4662
2372-2541
Abstract
With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and its wide application in urban traffic, the next-generation Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication network should support high-capacity, ultrareliable, and low-latency massive information exchange to provide unprecedentedly diverse user experiences. The development of the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication technology will pave the way for realizing this vision. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a critical 6G technology, is expected to make a big difference in V2X communications when used in conjunction with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), allowing for extremely increased communication capacity and reduced latency. We propose an UAV-enhanced RIS-assisted V2X communication architecture (UR-V2X) suitable for urban 3-D IoT traffic and design an adapted MAC protocol UR-V2X MAC protocol (UR-V2X-MAC) to accomplish communication resource allocation and scheduling. The UAVs are used as access points and resource allocation centers, while the RISs are used as passive relays to assist V2X communication in proposed architecture. To improve the performance of UR-V2X-MAC, we use a distributed optimization algorithm in the message report phase of the protocol to maximize the system capacity by allocating the transmit power and alternately optimizing the RIS phase shift matrix. We analyze the delay and system capacity characteristics under different parameter settings through theoretical derivation and protocol performance simulation. Analysis and simulation results are presented to demonstrate that UR-V2X-MAC achieves a reduction in communication delay and a significant increase in system capacity through detailed design and alternate optimization compared to the existing V2X MAC protocol and no-RIS case.