Spectrum Sharing in Internet-of-Vehicles Networks: Digital Twin-Empowered Proactive Interference Management Approach

Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) is envisioned to connect vehicles with each other, the surrounding environment, and central control centers. Spectrum sharing among active vehicular links is imperative to enhance the utilization of the spectrum licensed to IoV networks. However, co-channel interference among neighboring vehicular communication links poses a fundamental challenge when enabling spectrum sharing in IoV networks. This paper introduces a resource optimization framework, entitled PRISM (<underline xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">P</u>roactive <underline xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">R</u>esource optimization for <underline xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">I</u>nterference and <underline xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">S</u>pectrum <underline xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">M</u>anagement), to mitigate co-channel interference in IoV networks. PRISM proactively allocates resources among a set of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication links by accurately predicting the links’ positions and multi-path channel gains, thereby preventing outdated resource scheduling in dynamic IoV networks. PRISM is a three-step approach. In the first step, a multi-layer long short-term memory neural network and transfer learning are employed to predict the vehicles’ positions. In the second step, a digital twin network incorporating high-fidelity 3D maps and a ray tracing tool entitled <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {Sionna}^{\textrm {TM}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is used to predict the V2I links’ multi-path channel gains. In the third step, a resource allocation algorithm is executed to efficiently determine V2I clusters and their transmit power allocations to maximize the overall system capacity. Simulation results show that PRISM enhances IoV network’s capacity up to 33% compared to non-proactive schemes, as validated through a simulation framework using real-world vehicular mobility traces.