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I. Safiulin, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Multicast Beamforming Capabilities of LTE MBSFN for V2X Communications";
Talk: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Toronto; 09-24-2017 - 09-27-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2017-Fall", (2017), 1 - 5.

In this paper, we investigate multicast transmit
beamforming for vehicle to everything (V2X) communication
employing LTE´s multimedia broadcast single-frequency network
(MBSFN) capabilities. LTE-MBSFN enables to broadcast/
multicast information in 4G networks, which can be utilized
for efficient dissemination of road traffic related information to
vehicles on highways/motorways. MBSFN is currently restricted
to single antenna transmission within the LTE standard; this
paper aims to present performance benefits obtained with the
introduction of multiple transmit antennas. We propose an
efficient multi-cell multicast beamforming technique that leads
to significant SINR improvements, which enhances reliability,
reduces transmission latency and facilitates achieving 5G requirements
for vehicular communications.

multicast beamforming, LTE, MBSFN, vehicular communications, V2X, semi-definite relaxation, latency