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Abstract

In this paper, for millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is introduced for assisted beam tracking in order to overcome the problem that the line-of-sight (LOS) transmission characteristics of mmWave are highly susceptible to communication disconnection caused by large vehicles or obstacles in a highly mobile scenario like Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In this paper, we study the case of switching to the RIS-assisted virtual-line-of-sight (VLOS) path for temporary beam tracking when the direct connection LOS path is disconnected. The cascading channel model for the VLOS path used for tracking after the introduction of RIS is investigated. Combining the new state model of position and velocity, a three-dimensional beam tracking model of the VLOS path is derived based on the extended Kalman filter algorithm. The beam tracking process is designed, and the beam tracking performance is analyzed for different cases under this scheme. Simulation results show that the scheme in this paper has lower tracking error than the scheme of the conventional state model, and the introduction of RIS can overcome the problem that mmWave IoV communication is vulnerable to occlusion.

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