Full-Duplex Relay for Millimeter Wave Vehicular Platoon Communications

The safety and consistency of platoon-based driving are guaranteed via reliable communication between vehicles in a platoon. In this paper, we propose to exploit a full-duplex (FD) relay vehicle for millimeter-wave vehicular communications in platoon-based driving. Considering that a lead vehicle broadcasts information to all vehicles in a platoon, we consider two power allocation problems—maximizing broadcast information rates with a power constraint and minimizing power consumption with a quality-of-service constraint. In particular, for a four-vehicle platoon communication, we derive closed-form solutions for optimal power allocation and present numerical results to verify the performance of the proposed FD relay vehicles.