NR Sidelink Performance Evaluation for Enhanced 5G-V2X Services
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The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has specified Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) radio access technology in Releases 15–17, with an emphasis on facilitating direct communication between vehicles through the interface, sidelink PC5. This interface provides end-to-end network slicing functionality together with a stable cloud-native core network. The performance of direct vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications has been improved by using the sidelink interface, which allows for a network infrastructure bypass. Sidelink transmissions make use of orthogonal resources that are either centrally allocated (Mode 1, Release 14) or chosen by the vehicles themselves (Mode 2, Release 14). With growing interest in connected and autonomous vehicles, the advancement in radio access technologies that facilitate dependable and low-latency vehicular communications is becoming more significant. This is especially necessary when there are heavy traffic conditions and patterns. We thoroughly examined the New Radio (NR) sidelink’s performance based on 3GPP Releases 15–17 under various vehicle densities, speeds, and distance settings. Thus, by evaluating sidelink’s strengths and drawbacks, we are able to optimize resource allocation to obtain maximum coverage in urban areas. The performance evaluation was conducted on Network Simulator 3 (NS3.34/5G-LENA) utilizing various network metrics such as average packet reception rate, throughput, and latency.
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Autonomous resource allocation appears to be more challenging than the centralized mode due to its heavy dependency on channel sensing and distributed resource selection procedures.
“Autonomous resource allocation appears to be more challenging than the centralized mode due to its heavy dependency on channel sensing and distributed resource selection procedures [101].”
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- Authors
- Tabassum, M., Bastos, F. H., Oliveira, A., & Klautau, A.
- Affiliations
- Michigan Technological University (US)
- Universidade Federal do Pará (BR)
- Telecommunications, Automation and Electronics Research and Development Center (LASSE), Universidade Federal do Pará, Bethlehem 66075-110, Brazil
- Corresponding author
- Tabassum, Mehnaz
- Venue
- Vehicles
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023-11-24
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1692-1706
- ISSN
- 2624-8921 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4388974213
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 1.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Vehicles (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Preprints.org (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Digital Commons - Michigan Tech (Michigan Technological University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Project Smart 5G Core And MUltiRAn Integration (SAMURAI) (2020/05127-2)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Traffic control and management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Transportation Systems and Logistics
- Keywords
- sidelink, New Radio, C-V2X, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, 5G-V2X, network slicing, resource allocation, traffic density, packet reception rate, throughput, latency, connected and autonomous vehicles, urban coverage
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