Vision-Aided 6G Wireless Communications: Blockage Prediction and Proactive Handoff

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09527v2
• Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:28:23 GMT
• Title: Vision-Aided 6G Wireless Communications: Blockage Prediction and Proactive Handoff
• Authors: Gouranga Charan, Muhammad Alrabeiah, and Ahmed Alkhateeb
• Abstract summary: The sensitivity to blockages is a key challenge for the high-frequency (5G millimeter wave and 6G sub-terahertz) wireless networks. A promising way to tackle the reliability and latency challenges lies in enabling proaction in wireless networks. This paper proposes a vision-aided wireless communication solution that utilizes bimodal machine learning to perform proactive blockage prediction and user hand-off.
• Score: 15.682727572668826
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The sensitivity to blockages is a key challenge for the high-frequency (5G millimeter wave and 6G sub-terahertz) wireless networks. Since these networks mainly rely on line-of-sight (LOS) links, sudden link blockages highly threaten the reliability of the networks. Further, when the LOS link is blocked, the network typically needs to hand off the user to another LOS basestation, which may incur critical time latency, especially if a search over a large codebook of narrow beams is needed. A promising way to tackle the reliability and latency challenges lies in enabling proaction in wireless networks. Proaction basically allows the network to anticipate blockages, especially dynamic blockages, and initiate user hand-off beforehand. This paper presents a complete machine learning framework for enabling proaction in wireless networks relying on visual data captured, for example, by RGB cameras deployed at the base stations. In particular, the paper proposes a vision-aided wireless communication solution that utilizes bimodal machine learning to perform proactive blockage prediction and user hand-off. The bedrock of this solution is a deep learning algorithm that learns from visual and wireless data how to predict incoming blockages. The predictions of this algorithm are used by the wireless network to proactively initiate hand-off decisions and avoid any unnecessary latency. The algorithm is developed on a vision-wireless dataset generated using the ViWi data-generation framework. Experimental results on two basestations with different cameras indicate that the algorithm is capable of accurately detecting incoming blockages more than $\sim 90\%$ of the time. Such blockage prediction ability is directly reflected in the accuracy of proactive hand-off, which also approaches $87\%$. This highlights a promising direction for enabling high reliability and low latency in future wireless networks.

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