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Title

Beam Management Driven by Radio Environment Maps in O-RAN Architecture

Authors

[ 1 ] Instytut Radiokomunikacji, Wydział Informatyki i Telekomunikacji, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee

Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)

[2.3] Information and communication technology

Year of publication

2023

Chapter type

chapter in monograph / paper

Publication language

english

Keywords
EN
  • Radio Environment Map
  • Open RAN
  • 5G networks
  • Massive MIMO
  • Beam Management
Abstract

EN The Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) is considered as one of the key technologies in 5G, and future 6G networks. From the perspective of, e.g., channel estimation, especially for high-speed users it is easier to implement an M-MIMO network exploiting a static set of beams, i.e., Grid of Beams (GoB). While considering GoB it is important to properly assign users to the beams, i.e., to perform Beam Management (BM). BM can be enhanced by taking into account historical knowledge about the radio environment, e.g., to avoid radio link failures. The aim of this paper is to propose such a BM algorithm, that utilizes location-dependent data stored in a Radio Environment Map (REM). It utilizes received power maps, and user mobility patterns to optimize the BM process in terms of Reinforcement Learning (RL) by using the Policy Iteration method under different goal functions, e.g., maximization of received power or minimization of beam reselections while avoiding radio link failures. The proposed solution is compliant with the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, enabling its practical implementation. Simulation studies have shown that the proposed BM algorithm can significantly reduce the number of beam reselections or radio link failures compared to the baseline algorithm.

Pages (from - to)

54 - 59

DOI

10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283527

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10283527

Book

2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)

Presented on

2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 28.05.2023 - 01.06.2023, Rome, Italy

Ministry points / chapter

20

Ministry points / conference (CORE)

70

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