학술논문

Beam Tracking Assisted High Mobility V2I Communications With Extremely Large Lens Antenna Array
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on. 73(5):7124-7130 May, 2024
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Antenna arrays
Lenses
Estimation
Direction-of-arrival estimation
Sensors
Antennas
Receiving antennas
Extremely large lens antenna array (ExLAA)
sensing-assisted communications
vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)
beam tracking
near-field signals
Language
ISSN
0018-9545
1939-9359
Abstract
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) scenarios commonly demand both high-accuracy positioning and high-rate communication. In this study, we consider the base station equipped with an extremely large lens antenna array (ExLAA) that serves the vehicles located in the near field region. To overcome the challenges posed by the “window” type array response, we propose a novel direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation based on sparse Bayesian inference (SBI). In this method, we treat the distance factor in window function as a nuisance parameter which is estimated by the classical matched filtering (MF) due to the sensing ability. Moreover, we develop an extended Kalman filter (EKF)-based closed-loop tracking strategy to assist communication links. This scheme fully exploits the beam tracking capabilities and its energy-focusing characteristics of ExLAA, resulting in a substantial reduction in communication overhead for high mobility scenarios. Numerical results demonstrate that our approach achieves good parameter estimation performance while establishing stable communication links for mobile vehicles.