Abstract
Millimeter wave (mmWave) vehicular communication is investigated in this paper, to achieve Gbps data rate for future connected vehicles. A novel hybrid mmWave and dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) vehicular communication approach is introduced to minimize the overhead related to beam searching and alignment, utilizing vehicle position information obtained from DSRC. Vehicular channel model is developed considering realistic 3D environment and traffic model, which is validated by measurement results. Cooperative vehicular positioning based on IEEE 802.11p DSRC is proposed, and enhanced position information is used to reduce beam searching overhead.