High-Rate Uninterrupted Internet-of-Vehicle Communications in Highways: Dynamic Blockage Avoidance and CSIT Acquisition
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In future wireless networks, one of the use-cases of interest is Internet-of-vehicles (IoV). Here, IoV refers to two different functionalities, namely, serving the in-vehicle users and supporting the connected-vehicle functionalities, where both can be well provided by the transceivers installed on top of vehicles. Such dual functionality of on-vehicle transceivers, however, implies strict rate and reliability requirements, for which one may need to utilize large bandwidths/beamforming, acquire up-to-date channel state information (CSI) and avoid blockages. In this article, we incorporate the recently proposed concept of predictor antennas (PAs) into a large-scale cooperative PA (LSCPA) setup where both temporal blockages and CSI out-dating are avoided via base stations (BSs)/vehicles cooperation. Summarizing the ongoing standardization progress enabling IoV communications, we present the potentials and challenges of the LSCPA setup, and compare the effect of cooperative and non-cooperative schemes on the performance of IoV links. As we show, the BSs cooperation and blockage/CSI prediction can boost the performance of IoV links remarkably.
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