Beamforming Design for RIS-Aided ISCC in Internet of Vehicles Systems

With the development of communication technology, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is becoming increasingly important, enabling vehicle-to-everything communication for real-time information exchange and processing, thereby significantly enhancing traffic efficiency and safety. In this article, we consider a joint beamforming design problem in IoV, where the objective is to minimize transmission power, computation rate, and communication rate within the integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) framework. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can provide additional spatial degrees of freedom to enhance the performance of ISCC systems in IoV within limited spectrum, energy resources, and complex interference management. To address the joint beamforming design problem, we present a cooperative beamforming algorithm called weight performance optimization (WPO), which explores three single-objective optimization problems in sensing, computation, and communication within the IoV context, using alternating optimization (AO) to simplify and solve these foundational elements of the WPO framework within limited resources and vehicle mobility, enhancing resource distribution while maintaining a balance between power efficiency and system performance. Numerical results demonstrate the efficiency and potential advantages of our proposed algorithms. Specifically, the results show that the sensing error of the WPO algorithm is reduced by up to 92.2% compared to existing popular algorithms, while the computation rate and communication rate are increased by more than 29.5% and 23.9%, respectively.