Yan Shi

Bio: Yan Shi is an academic researcher from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mobility management & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1072 citations.

Vehicle-to-Everything (v2x) Services Supported by LTE-Based Systems and 5G

Abstract: Vehicle-to-everything (V2X), including vehicle- to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-network (V2N) communications, improves road safety, traffic efficiency, and the availability of infotainment services. Standardization of Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based V2X has been actively conducted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to provide solutions for V2X communications, and has benefited from the global deployment and fast commercialization of LTE systems. LTE-based V2X was widely used as LTE-V in the Chinese vehicular communications industry, and LTE-based V2X was redefined as LTE V2X in 3GPP standardization progress. In this article, the overview of requirements and use cases in V2X services in 3GPP is presented. The up-to-date standardization of LTE V2X in 3GPP is surveyed. The challenges and detailed design aspects in LTE V2X are also discussed. Meanwhile, the enhanced V2X (eV2X) services and possible 5G solutions are analyzed. Finally, the implementations of LTE V2X are presented with the latest progress in industrial alliances, research, development of prototypes, and field tests.

LTE-V: A TD-LTE-Based V2X Solution for Future Vehicular Network

Abstract: Diverse applications in vehicular network present specific requirements and challenges on wireless access technology. Although considered as the first standard, IEEE 802.11p shows the obvious drawbacks and is still in the field-trial stage. In this paper, we propose long-term evolution (LTE)-V as a systematic and integrated V2X solution based on time-division LTE (TD-LTE) 4G. LTE-V includes two modes: 1) LTE-V-direct and 2) LTE-V-cell. Comparing to IEEE 802.11p, LTE-V-direct is a new decentralized architecture which modifies TD-LTE physical layer and try to keep commonality as possible to provide short range direct communication, low latency, and high reliability improvements. By leveraging the centralized architecture with native features of TD-LTE, LTE-V-cell optimizes radio resource management for better supporting V2I. LTE-V-direct and LTE-V-cell coordinate with each other to provide an integrated V2X solution. Performance simulations based on sufficient scenarios and the prototype system with typical cases are presented. Finally, future works of LTE-V are envisioned.

A Vision of C-V2X: Technologies, Field Testing, and Challenges With Chinese Development

Abstract: Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) is an important enabling technology for autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems. It evolves from long-term evolution (LTE)-V2X to new radio (NR)-V2X, which will coexist and be complementary with each other to provide low-latency, high-reliability, and high-throughput communications for various C-V2X applications. In this article, a vision of C-V2X is presented. The requirements of the basic road safety and advanced applications, the architecture, the key technologies, and the standards of C-V2X are introduced, highlighting the technical evolution path from LTE-V2X to NR-V2X. Especially, based on the continual and active promotion of C-V2X research, field testing, and development in China, the related works and progresses are also presented. Finally, the trends of C-V2X applications with technical challenges are envisioned.

SoftNet: A software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G

Abstract: Mobile cloud computing and other new emerging communication paradigms such as mobile social networking and Internet-of-Things, have brought challenges in flexibility, efficiency, and scalability to the current LTE network. Inspired by thinking of the fundamental mechanisms in LTE as reasons causing those problems, SoftNet, a software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G, is proposed in this article following principles proposed for designing an efficient and scalable network. The analysis of the working mechanisms of SoftNet, including its dynamically defined architecture, decentralized mobility management, distributed data forwarding, and multi-RATs coordination, show that SoftNet has improved system capacity and performance. Further, simulations are conducted to demonstrate that signaling cost in SoftNet, as an important performance metric, can be decreased significantly compared with LTE networks.

MAGA: A Mobility-Aware Computation Offloading Decision for Distributed Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract: Distributed mobile cloud computing (MCC) is the new paradigm for providing ubiquitous cloud resources to mobile users with low latency. Mobility is an important factor in distributed MCC which may incur intermittent connectivity and consequently fail computation offloading requests. Latest researches on human mobility show that mobility of users present inherent patterns, periodicity, and predictability. This motivates us to propose a mobile access prediction algorithm based on tail matching subsequence, whose effectiveness and accuracy is validated by experiments using reality mobility dataset. Then MAGA, a mobility-aware offloading decision method for distributed MCC is proposed in this paper for single-job, multicomponent, and multisite offloading scenario. The proposed mobile access prediction is used in MAGA for cloudlet reliability estimation. An integer encoding-based adaptive genetic algorithm is used for offloading decision. Experiment results show the performance advantages of MAGA.

Towards 6G wireless communication networks: vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

Abstract: The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass connectivity, ultra-reliability, and guaranteed low latency. However, 5G will not meet all requirements of the future in 2030 and beyond, and sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks are expected to provide global coverage, enhanced spectral/energy/cost efficiency, better intelligence level and security, etc. To meet these requirements, 6G networks will rely on new enabling technologies, i.e., air interface and transmission technologies and novel network architecture, such as waveform design, multiple access, channel coding schemes, multi-antenna technologies, network slicing, cell-free architecture, and cloud/fog/edge computing. Our vision on 6G is that it will have four new paradigm shifts. First, to satisfy the requirement of global coverage, 6G will not be limited to terrestrial communication networks, which will need to be complemented with non-terrestrial networks such as satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks, thus achieving a space-air-ground-sea integrated communication network. Second, all spectra will be fully explored to further increase data rates and connection density, including the sub-6 GHz, millimeter wave (mmWave), terahertz (THz), and optical frequency bands. Third, facing the big datasets generated by the use of extremely heterogeneous networks, diverse communication scenarios, large numbers of antennas, wide bandwidths, and new service requirements, 6G networks will enable a new range of smart applications with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies. Fourth, network security will have to be strengthened when developing 6G networks. This article provides a comprehensive survey of recent advances and future trends in these four aspects. Clearly, 6G with additional technical requirements beyond those of 5G will enable faster and further communications to the extent that the boundary between physical and cyber worlds disappears.

Vehicle-to-Everything (v2x) Services Supported by LTE-Based Systems and 5G

Abstract: Vehicle-to-everything (V2X), including vehicle- to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-network (V2N) communications, improves road safety, traffic efficiency, and the availability of infotainment services. Standardization of Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based V2X has been actively conducted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to provide solutions for V2X communications, and has benefited from the global deployment and fast commercialization of LTE systems. LTE-based V2X was widely used as LTE-V in the Chinese vehicular communications industry, and LTE-based V2X was redefined as LTE V2X in 3GPP standardization progress. In this article, the overview of requirements and use cases in V2X services in 3GPP is presented. The up-to-date standardization of LTE V2X in 3GPP is surveyed. The challenges and detailed design aspects in LTE V2X are also discussed. Meanwhile, the enhanced V2X (eV2X) services and possible 5G solutions are analyzed. Finally, the implementations of LTE V2X are presented with the latest progress in industrial alliances, research, development of prototypes, and field tests.

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: A Survey

Abstract: Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), as an integration of satellite systems, aerial networks, and terrestrial communications, has been becoming an emerging architecture and attracted intensive research interest during the past years. Besides bringing significant benefits for various practical services and applications, SAGIN is also facing many unprecedented challenges due to its specific characteristics, such as heterogeneity, self-organization, and time-variability. Compared to traditional ground or satellite networks, SAGIN is affected by the limited and unbalanced network resources in all three network segments, so that it is difficult to obtain the best performances for traffic delivery. Therefore, the system integration, protocol optimization, resource management, and allocation in SAGIN is of great significance. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to present the state-of-the-art of the SAGIN since existing survey papers focused on either only one single network segment in space or air, or the integration of space-ground, neglecting the integration of all the three network segments. In light of this, we present in this paper a comprehensive review of recent research works concerning SAGIN from network design and resource allocation to performance analysis and optimization. After discussing several existing network architectures, we also point out some technology challenges and future directions.