Deep Adaptive Transmission for Internet of Vehicles (IoV)

To support reliable transmission of data at high rate in time-varying fading channels, adaptive transmission is required, where transmitter and receiver adjust their transmission and reception mode to the dynamics of the channel. The receiver, based on its channel estimation and prediction, decides the optimal link adaptation and feeds this back to the transmitter. In this paper, we develop a deep learning (DL)-based link adaptation algorithm for highly dynamic communication links, where adaptive transmission parameters are decided for $l\gt1$ forward time steps without a priori knowledge on channel statistics. Compared to conventional solutions, our approach reduces the feedback requirements from the receiver to the transmitter by a factor of l which significantly reduces the complexity. This achievement comes at no additional cost on the data rate and/or bit error rate.