Differential Transformer-driven 6G Physical Layer for Collaborative Perception Enhancement

The emergence of 6G wireless networks promises to revolutionize vehicular communications by enabling ultra-reliable, low-latency, and high-capacity data exchange. In this context, collaborative perception techniques, where multiple vehicles or infrastructure nodes cooperate to jointly receive and decode transmitted signals, aim to enhance reliability and spectral efficiency for Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) applications. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end wireless neural receiver based on a Differential Transformer architecture, tailored for 6G V2X communication with a specific focus on enabling collaborative perception among connected autonomous vehicles. Our model integrates key components of the 6G physical layer, designed to boost performance in dynamic and challenging autonomous driving environments. We validate the proposed system across a range of scenarios, including 3GPP-defined Urban Macro (UMa) channel. To assess the model's real-world applicability, we evaluate its robustness within a V2X framework. In a collaborative perception scenario, our system processes heterogeneous LiDAR and camera data from four connected vehicles in dynamic cooperative vehicular networks. The results show significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods, achieving an average precision of 0.84, highlighting the potential of our proposed approach to enable robust, intelligent, and adaptive wireless cooperation for next-generation connected autonomous vehicles.

TransRx-6G-V2X : Transformer Encoder-Based Deep Neural Receiver For Next Generation of Cellular Vehicular Communications

End-to-end wireless communication is new concept expected to be widely used in the physical layer of future wireless communication systems (6G). It involves the substitution of transmitter and receiver block components with a deep neural network (DNN), aiming to enhance the efficiency of data transmission. This will ensure the transition of autonomous vehicles (AVs) from self-autonomy to full collaborative autonomy, that requires vehicular connectivity with high data throughput and minimal latency. In this article, we propose a novel neural network receiver based on transformer architecture, named TransRx, designed for vehicle-to-network (V2N) communications. The TransRx system replaces conventional receiver block components in traditional communication setups. We evaluated our proposed system across various scenarios using different parameter sets and velocities ranging from 0 to 120 km/h over Urban Macro-cell (UMa) channels as defined by 3GPP. The results demonstrate that TransRx outperforms the state-of-the-art systems, achieving a 3.5dB improvement in convergence to low Bit Error Rate (BER) compared to convolutional neural network (CNN)-based neural receivers, and an 8dB improvement compared to traditional baseline receiver configurations. Furthermore, our proposed system exhibits robust generalization capabilities, making it suitable for deployment in large-scale environments.