Overcoming Directional Deafness in High Frequency Sidelink Communications

Ashutosh Srivastava, Sanjay Goyal, Umer Salim, Pei Liu, Ravikumar Pragada, Shivendra S. Panwar

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Abstract

Device-to-device (D2D) communication using 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink (SL) is envisioned to be a key enabler of high speed, low latency applications, with automated driving being the prime use case. To meet the high data rate requirements, it is essential for SL devices to be able to operate in mmWave/sub-THz frequencies where bandwidth is abundant. Consequently, several enhancements will be needed to the current version of NR SL, which is mainly designed for sub-6 GHz frequencies. Beamforming based highly directional transmission/reception used at high carrier frequencies result in directional deafness in other directions. For SL UE autonomous resource allocation, termed as Mode 2 of NR SL in 3GPP, this results in a UE's inability to detect transmissions not aligned to its primary direction of reception, which leads to high packet errors. In this paper, we focus on system wide performance of 3GPP based NR SL Mode 2 resource allocation for directional systems at mmWave/sub-THz frequencies. We propose a composite strategy that comprises paired SL control transmission and sensing, whereby SL UEs transmit and receive the SL control information in an additional 'paired' direction, directly opposite to their intended direction of transmission. This helps eliminate hidden node interference while avoiding too many exposed nodes. System level simulations in NR V2X highway scenarios show significant performance improvement of the proposed scheme over conventional solutions like omnidirectional or directional transmission/reception of SL control information.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring, VTC 2022-Spring - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665482431
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event95th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring, VTC 2022-Spring - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: Jun 19 2022Jun 22 2022

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Volume2022-June
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Conference

Conference95th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring, VTC 2022-Spring
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period6/19/226/22/22

Keywords

  • 3GPP NR
  • Resource Allocation
  • Sidelink Mode 2
  • mmWave
  • sub-THz

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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