{"title":"Welcome from the TPC Co-Chairs","authors":"A. Conti, I. Collings, W. Chen","doi":"10.1109/vetecs.2012.6239858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/vetecs.2012.6239858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126070913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongchao Chen, Zhongxing Zheng, Xiaohui Liang, Yupu Liu, Yi Zhao
{"title":"Beamforming in Multi-User MISO Cellular Networks with Deep Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Hongchao Chen, Zhongxing Zheng, Xiaohui Liang, Yupu Liu, Yi Zhao","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448736","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-user multi-input single-output (MU-MISO) cellular networks, beamforming is an effective way to manage the inter-cell interference and intra-cell interference, and improve the achievable rate. However, finding the optional beamforming solution needs a centralized structure, which may be impractical in realistic scenario. In this paper, a distributed deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based beamforming algorithm is proposed in which each base station (BS) uses DRL to select the beamformers for its intended users in each cell. Besides, the channel orthogonality measure among intended users, on behalf of the intra-cell interference, is used as the state element of the DRL. Moreover, by applying the proposed method, the number of action elements can be reduced, thus the training complexity decreased. Compared with the benchmark algorithm, the simulation results demonstrate that this scheme could improve the system achievable rate. In a word, this paper provides another way for optimizing the beamforming problem in MU-MISO systems.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"53 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120933329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Gonzalez Mariño, F. Fons, Ahmed Gharba, Li Ming, J. M. Aróstegui
{"title":"Elastic Queueing Engine for Time Sensitive Networking","authors":"Angela Gonzalez Mariño, F. Fons, Ahmed Gharba, Li Ming, J. M. Aróstegui","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448758","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we introduce the concept of Elastic Queueing Engine (EQE) for Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) which is a new networking-optimized queueing strategy designed to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) and usability of resources in time sensitive networks. The proposed dynamic run-time adaptation of queues to network status exploits usability of resources by introducing three new degrees of elasticity in Hardware (HW), i.e., the system is able to dynamically adapt to events in incoming traffic by optimizing the usage of available resources. The three new degrees of elasticity introduced by EQE are: dynamic queues size, dynamic Internal Priority Value (IPV) management and dynamic Gate Control List (GCL). Apart from inventing the queueing closed-loop control algorithms, EQE synthesizes these three functionalities in HW as co-processors attached to the system CPU to guarantee a real-time response to ingress frames, aimed at contributing towards fail-safe and fail-operational In-Vehicle Network (IVN) solutions. Our results show that as long as there is available memory in the system, EQE for TSN can completely avoid frame drops in scenarios where static queues systems would be compromised, while other network KPIs (maximum latency, cost) remain similar to implementations without the proposed new features.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125825862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Detection for M-QAM Signals","authors":"Shun Ishihara, K. Umebayashi, Janne J. Lehtomäki","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448730","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address energy detection for M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals. In the literature deterministic signal model is widely used and detection probability is a function of signal energy. Unlike constant amplitude signals, the QAM signal is not deterministic since the energy in each QAM symbol can randomly vary. For random signals, model where both signal and noise are Gaussian has been widely used. However, this approximation may not provide accurate detection probability for QAM signals. Instead the detection probability should be averaged over the distribution of the energy. Previous work has considered calculating exact detection probability for given M analytically. However, the method presented previously has complexity that increases as a function of M and the number of samples.In this paper, we show that the distribution of observed energy for any M can be accurately approximated by one distribution which is derived analytically. Multiple numerical results showing probability density function, Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance, and detection probability are shown. Based on these results, a range where the proposed approximation is applicable is obtained.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126102952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility-Aware QoS Promotion and Load Balancing in MEC-Based Vehicular Networks: A Deep Learning Approach","authors":"Chih-Ho Hsu, Yao Chiang, Yi Zhang, Hung-Yu Wei","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448705","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has become a promising enabler to support emerging applications in vehicular networks by offloading compute-intensive tasks from vehicles to proximate MEC servers. However, the high mobility of vehicles brings difficulties to provide reliable services in the MEC system due to potential outages of communication in the process of offloading. Also, load balancing of the MEC system is seldom considered in previous offloading schemes, which may increase the risk of system failure and reduce Quality of Service (QoS) of vehicles due to congestions. Currently, we still lack a low-complexity method to address these issues. In this paper, we aim to promote QoS of vehicular applications by taking vehicles' mobility and latency requirements into account while guaranteeing load balancing of the MEC system. Specifically, we first formulate the joint offloading decision and resource allocation problem as a Mixed Integer NonLinear Programming (MINLP) problem. Then, by taking advantage of both Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), we propose a novel framework to effectively address the problem, where PSO accelerates the training by providing high quality labeled data to DNN. Finally, simulation results show that our proposed method outperforms traditional heuristic algorithms in terms of QoS and runtime.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123600490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vehicle Trajectory Prediction based on LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks","authors":"A. Ip, Luis Irio, Rodolfo Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9449038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9449038","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an effective tool to predict the future trajectories of vehicles when its current and previous locations are known. We propose a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) prediction scheme due to its adequacy to learn from sequential data. To fully learn the vehicles’ mobility patterns, during the training process we use a dataset that contains real traces of 442 taxis running in the city of Porto, Portugal, during a full year. From experimental results, we observe that the prediction process is improved when more information about prior vehicle mobility is available. Moreover, the computation time is evaluated for a distinct number of prior locations considered in the prediction process. The results exhibit a prediction performance higher than 89%, showing the effectiveness of the proposed LSTM network.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125332874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fraud-resilient Privacy-preserving Crowd-sensing for Dynamic Spectrum Access","authors":"Erald Troja, Ice Lin","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448648","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a novel privacy-preserving scheme based on the fusion of Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) and crowd-sensing paradigm. Our scheme provides location privacy for the crowd-sensing users through homomorphic cryptographic constructions. Furthermore, our scheme mitigates fraudulent sensing report attacks by providing robust fraud prevention based on homomorphic cryptographic constructions. We provide substantial experiments on real-life datasets which shows that our proposed protocol provides realistic efficiency and security.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126627190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"iVRLS: In-coverage Vehicular Reinforcement Learning Scheduler","authors":"T. Şahin, Mate Boban, R. Khalili, A. Wolisz","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448993","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular networks enable high reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications thanks to centralized, efficient coordination of radio resources. Collision-free transmissions are possible, where base stations could allocate orthogonal resources to the vehicles. However, in case of limited resources in relation to the data traffic load, the resource allocation task becomes a challenge. Current solutions propose heuristic algorithms that focus on resource reuse, often based on the location of the vehicles. Such schedulers are mainly designed assuming ideal network coverage conditions and are prone to performance degradation in case of coverage loss. Further, they typically rely on frequent scheduling updates, which increases the dependency on coverage. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning-based approach to scheduling V2V communications. Our solution, called iVRLS, delivers higher reliability than an enhanced version of a state-of-the-art benchmark algorithm in case of intermittent coverage conditions, while requiring less frequent scheduling. Following this approach, we enable a unified scheduler deployment irrespective of coverage, which offers graceful performance behavior across varying coverage conditions, thus making iVRLS a robust alternative to existing schedulers.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126639455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Samokhin, M. Mehndiratta, U. Hamid, J. Saarinen
{"title":"Adaptive Fuzzy Tuning Framework for Autonomous Vehicles: An Experimental Case Study","authors":"S. Samokhin, M. Mehndiratta, U. Hamid, J. Saarinen","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448666","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving precise trajectory tracking performance from an autonomous vehicle requires a carefully tuned controller. However, such a task is arduous which necessitates iterative testing. Furthermore, changes in traction condition render the offline tuned gains less viable. Hence, this paper proposes an adaptive tuning strategy to improve the performance of lateral trajectory tracking. In essence, the tuning framework utilizes fuzzy inference to update the controller gains online. The underlying rules are based on intuitive ideas that facilitate easy deployment. Moreover, the efficacy of the tuning strategy has been experimentally evaluated in multi-scenario conditions. The obtained results validate that the adaptive fuzzy-based tuning strategy consistently improves the tracking performance with a decrease in the tracking error with values of up to 73%. This paper is an effort to showcase the importance of a reliable tuning strategy towards motion control of autonomous vehicles.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115074697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective Perception service for Connected Vehicles and Roadside Infrastructure","authors":"Ameni Chtourou, Pierre Merdrignac, O. Shagdar","doi":"10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VTC2021-Spring51267.2021.9448753","url":null,"abstract":"Collective Perception Service (CPS) is under standardisation at European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI) with the objective of enabling sensor-equipped vehicles and roadside units (RSU) to notify nearby vehicles of the objects detected by their sensors. This service is expected to significantly improve perception of vehicles and, hence, improve road safety. While both vehicles and RSUs can contribute in CPS, they have very different characteristics in terms of mobility, sensor field of view (FOV), communication coverage, processing capacity, and service integration cost. This paper compares CPS provided by vehicles and by RSUs, particularly their impacts on extending vehicles’ perception. We will first develop an analytical model that formulates the number of objects perceived by vehicles and RSUs and the success probability of CPM targeting the IEEE 802.11p technology. The analytical results will then be confirmed by simulation evaluations conducted using the VEINS simulator. The analytical and simulation results reveal that, RSU-assisted CPS significantly outperforms vehicle-assisted CPS, providing up to 8-times higher effective number of perceived objects. The results suggest a great opportunity of optimising radio resource utilisation without degrading collective perception by exploiting roadside infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":194840,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}