A hybrid analog-digital combiner for broadcast vehicular communication is proposed. It has an analog part that does not require any channel state information or feedback from the receiver, and a digital part that uses maximal ratio combining (MRC). We focus on designing the analog part of the combiner to optimize the received signal strength along all azimuth angles for robust periodic vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, in a scenario of one dominant component between the communicating vehicles (e.g., highway scenario). We show that the parameters of a previously suggested fully analog combiner solves the optimization problem of the analog part of the proposed hybrid combiner. Assuming $L$ directional antennas with uniform angular separation together with the special case of a two-port receiver, we show that it is optimal to combine groups of $\lceil {L/2}\rceil $ and $\lfloor {L/2}\rfloor $ antennas in analog domain and feed the output of each group to one digital port. This is shown to be optimal under a sufficient condition on the sidelobes level of the directional antennas. Moreover, we derive a performance bound for the hybrid combiner to guide the choice of antennas needed to meet the reliability requirements of the V2V communication links.


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    Title :

    Hybrid Combining of Directional Antennas for Periodic Broadcast V2V Communication




    Publication date :

    2022-04-01


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    2455932 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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