We propose a novel beam-tracking algorithm based on channel charting (CC) which maintains the communication link between a base station (BS) and a mobile user equipment (UE) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) mobile communications system. Our method first uses large-scale channel state information at the BS in order to learn a CC. The points in the channel chart are then annotated with the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of best beams. One can then leverage this CC-to-SNR mapping in order to track strong beams between UEs and BS efficiently and robustly at very low beam-search overhead. Simulation results in a mmWave scenario show that the performance of the CC-assisted beam tracking method approaches that of an exhaustive beam-search approach while requiring significantly lower beam-search overhead than conventional tracking methods.


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    Title :

    Channel Charting Assisted Beam Tracking


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    Publication date :

    2022-06-01


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    1480527 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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