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A Study on DM-RS Structure for LTE V2V Communications

LTE 차량 간 통신을 위한 DM-RS 구조 연구

  • Baek, Jung-Yeon (Kyunghee University Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering) ;
  • Park, Ji-Hye (Kyunghee University Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering) ;
  • Hong, Een-Kee (Kyunghee University Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering)
  • Received : 2016.08.31
  • Accepted : 2017.01.12
  • Published : 2017.01.31
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Abstract

The study on 'support for V2V(Vehicle to Vehicle) services based on LTE sidelink' has been carried out in 3GPP RAN working group. The conventional LTE sidelink technology is not adequate for high speed V2V communications because the conventional DM-RS(Demodulation Reference signal) structure is developed for pedestrian environment. While the typical speed of pedestrian environment is 3km/h, that of V2V communications is 120 km/h and the information on channel estimation is not sufficient with legacy DM-RS structure. In this paper, improved DM-RS structures for V2V communications that have rapid channel variation are introduced and the performance of channel estimation accuracy is analyzed. Simulation results show that the performance improvement of channel estimation can be achieved based on extended sub-carrier spacing structure resulted from reduced inter-carrier interference. However, the extended sub-carrier spacing requires the longer cyclic prefix and higher overhead. As a results of considerations on DM-RS modification, the sub-carrier spacing is maintained and the high density of DM-RS is applied for V2V communications.

3GPP에서는 LTE sidelink기술을 이용한 V2V(Vehicle to Vehicle)통신 표준에 대한 연구를 진행 중이다. 고속의 차량 간 통신이라는 점에서 기존 sidelink기술을 그대로 적용하기에 부적합한 부분이 존재하는데, 일반적으로 3km/h의 도보이용자를 기준으로 하였던 기존 DM-RS(Demodulation Reference signal)구조를 통해서는 120km/h로 이동하는 차량 통신에서 필요한 채널 추정 정보를 얻기에 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 빠른 채널 변화 특성을 갖는 차량 간 통신에서 필요한 향상된 DM-RS 구조에 대해서 알아보고, 각각의 DM-RS구조들에 의한 채널 추정 정확도를 비교 분석 하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 확장된 반송파 주파수를 사용함으로써 반송파 간 간섭을 방지하여 빠르게 변하는 채널 상황에서 보다 정확한 채널 추정 값을 얻을 수 있었다. 그러나 확장된 반송파 주파수는 Cyclic prefix에 의해 큰 오버헤드를 갖게 되어 결과적으로 기존의 반송파 주파수를 유지하면서 높은 밀도를 가지는 DM-RS 구조가 차량 간 통신에 적합 할 것으로 보여 진다.

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