The adoption of 5G for Railways(5G-R)is expanding,particularly in high-speed trains,due to the benefits offered by 5G technology.High-speed trains must provide seamless connectivity and Quality of Service(QoS)to ensur...The adoption of 5G for Railways(5G-R)is expanding,particularly in high-speed trains,due to the benefits offered by 5G technology.High-speed trains must provide seamless connectivity and Quality of Service(QoS)to ensure passengers have a satisfactory experience throughout their journey.Installing base stations along urban environments can improve coverage but can dramatically reduce the experience of users due to interference.In particular,when a user with a mobile phone is a passenger in a high speed train traversing between urban centres,the coverage and the 5G resources in general need to be adequate not to diminish her experience of the service.The utilization of macro,pico,and femto cells may optimize the utilization of 5G resources.In this paper,a Genetic Algorithm(GA)-based approach to address the challenges of 5G network planning for 5G-R services is presented.The network is divided into three cell types,macro,pico,and femto cells—and the optimization process is designed to achieve a balance between key objectives:providing comprehensive coverage,minimizing interference,and maximizing energy efficiency.The study focuses on environments with high user density,such as high-speed trains,where reliable and high-quality connectivity is critical.Through simulations,the effectiveness of the GA-driven framework in optimizing coverage and performance in such scenarios is demonstrated.The algorithm is compared with the Particle Swarm Optimisation(PSO)and the Simulated Annealing(SA)methods and interesting insights emerged.The GA offers a strong balance between coverage and efficiency,achieving significantly higher coverage than PSO while maintaining competitive energy efficiency and interference levels.Its steady fitness improvement and adaptability make it well-suited for scenarios where wide coverage is a priority alongside acceptable performance trade-offs.展开更多
This paper is to explore the problems of intelligent connected vehicles(ICVs)autonomous driving decision-making under a 5G-V2X structured road environment.Through literature review and interviews with autonomous drivi...This paper is to explore the problems of intelligent connected vehicles(ICVs)autonomous driving decision-making under a 5G-V2X structured road environment.Through literature review and interviews with autonomous driving practitioners,this paper firstly puts forward a logical framework for designing a cerebrum-like autonomous driving system.Secondly,situated on this framework,it builds a hierarchical finite state machine(HFSM)model as well as a TOPSIS-GRA algorithm for making ICV autonomous driving decisions by employing a data fusion approach between the entropy weight method(EWM)and analytic hierarchy process method(AHP)and by employing a model fusion approach between the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution(TOPSIS)and grey relational analysis(GRA).The HFSM model is composed of two layers:the global FSM model and the local FSM model.The decision of the former acts as partial input information of the latter and the result of the latter is sent forward to the local pathplanning module,meanwhile pulsating feedback to the former as real-time refresh data.To identify different traffic scenarios in a cerebrum-like way,the global FSM model is designed as 7 driving behavior states and 17 driving characteristic events,and the local FSM model is designed as 16 states and 8 characteristic events.In respect to designing a cerebrum-like algorithm for state transition,this paper firstly fuses AHP weight and EWM weight at their output layer to generate a synthetic weight coefficient for each characteristic event;then,it further fuses TOPSIS method and GRA method at the model building layer to obtain the implementable order of state transition.To verify the feasibility,reliability,and safety of theHFSMmodel aswell as its TOPSISGRA state transition algorithm,this paper elaborates on a series of simulative experiments conducted on the PreScan8.50 platform.The results display that the accuracy of obstacle detection gets 98%,lane line prediction is beyond 70 m,the speed of collision avoidance is higher than 45 km/h,the distance of collision avoidance is less than 5 m,path planning time for obstacle avoidance is averagely less than 50 ms,and brake deceleration is controlled under 6 m/s2.These technical indexes support that the driving states set and characteristic events set for the HFSM model as well as its TOPSIS-GRA algorithm may bring about cerebrum-like decision-making effectiveness for ICV autonomous driving under 5G-V2X intelligent road infrastructure.展开更多
文摘The adoption of 5G for Railways(5G-R)is expanding,particularly in high-speed trains,due to the benefits offered by 5G technology.High-speed trains must provide seamless connectivity and Quality of Service(QoS)to ensure passengers have a satisfactory experience throughout their journey.Installing base stations along urban environments can improve coverage but can dramatically reduce the experience of users due to interference.In particular,when a user with a mobile phone is a passenger in a high speed train traversing between urban centres,the coverage and the 5G resources in general need to be adequate not to diminish her experience of the service.The utilization of macro,pico,and femto cells may optimize the utilization of 5G resources.In this paper,a Genetic Algorithm(GA)-based approach to address the challenges of 5G network planning for 5G-R services is presented.The network is divided into three cell types,macro,pico,and femto cells—and the optimization process is designed to achieve a balance between key objectives:providing comprehensive coverage,minimizing interference,and maximizing energy efficiency.The study focuses on environments with high user density,such as high-speed trains,where reliable and high-quality connectivity is critical.Through simulations,the effectiveness of the GA-driven framework in optimizing coverage and performance in such scenarios is demonstrated.The algorithm is compared with the Particle Swarm Optimisation(PSO)and the Simulated Annealing(SA)methods and interesting insights emerged.The GA offers a strong balance between coverage and efficiency,achieving significantly higher coverage than PSO while maintaining competitive energy efficiency and interference levels.Its steady fitness improvement and adaptability make it well-suited for scenarios where wide coverage is a priority alongside acceptable performance trade-offs.
基金funded by Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau (No.cstc2021jsyj-yzysbAX0008)Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences (No.P2021JG13)2021 Humanities and Social Sciences Program of Chongqing Education Commission (No.21SKGH227).
文摘This paper is to explore the problems of intelligent connected vehicles(ICVs)autonomous driving decision-making under a 5G-V2X structured road environment.Through literature review and interviews with autonomous driving practitioners,this paper firstly puts forward a logical framework for designing a cerebrum-like autonomous driving system.Secondly,situated on this framework,it builds a hierarchical finite state machine(HFSM)model as well as a TOPSIS-GRA algorithm for making ICV autonomous driving decisions by employing a data fusion approach between the entropy weight method(EWM)and analytic hierarchy process method(AHP)and by employing a model fusion approach between the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution(TOPSIS)and grey relational analysis(GRA).The HFSM model is composed of two layers:the global FSM model and the local FSM model.The decision of the former acts as partial input information of the latter and the result of the latter is sent forward to the local pathplanning module,meanwhile pulsating feedback to the former as real-time refresh data.To identify different traffic scenarios in a cerebrum-like way,the global FSM model is designed as 7 driving behavior states and 17 driving characteristic events,and the local FSM model is designed as 16 states and 8 characteristic events.In respect to designing a cerebrum-like algorithm for state transition,this paper firstly fuses AHP weight and EWM weight at their output layer to generate a synthetic weight coefficient for each characteristic event;then,it further fuses TOPSIS method and GRA method at the model building layer to obtain the implementable order of state transition.To verify the feasibility,reliability,and safety of theHFSMmodel aswell as its TOPSISGRA state transition algorithm,this paper elaborates on a series of simulative experiments conducted on the PreScan8.50 platform.The results display that the accuracy of obstacle detection gets 98%,lane line prediction is beyond 70 m,the speed of collision avoidance is higher than 45 km/h,the distance of collision avoidance is less than 5 m,path planning time for obstacle avoidance is averagely less than 50 ms,and brake deceleration is controlled under 6 m/s2.These technical indexes support that the driving states set and characteristic events set for the HFSM model as well as its TOPSIS-GRA algorithm may bring about cerebrum-like decision-making effectiveness for ICV autonomous driving under 5G-V2X intelligent road infrastructure.
