Next generation communication systems require accurate beam alignment to counteract the impairments that characterize propagation in high-frequency bands. The overhead of the pilot sequences required to select the best beam pair is prohibitive when codebooks contain a large number of beams, as is the case in practice. To remedy this issue, some schemes exploit information about the user location to predict the best beam pair. However, these schemes (i) involve no measurements whatsoever, which generally results in a highly suboptimal predicted beam, and (ii) are not robust to localization errors. To address these limitations, this paper builds upon the notion of radio map to develop two algorithms that attain a balance between the quality of the obtained beam pair and measurement overhead. The proposed algorithms predict the received power corresponding to each pair and measure just the $Q$ pairs with highest prediction. While the first algorithm targets simplicity, the second one relies on a Bayesian approach to endow the prediction process with robustness to localization error. The performance of both algorithms is shown to widely outperform existing methods using ray-tracing data.


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    Title :

    Radio Maps for Beam Alignment in mmWave Communications with Location Uncertainty


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    Publication date :

    2024-06-24


    Size :

    2145066 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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