Effect of Retransmissions on the Performance of C-V2X Communication for 5G

TL;DR

This paper investigates how retransmissions affect the performance of C-V2X communication in 5G, proposing schemes to enhance reliability without feedback, and evaluates their impact through simulation.

Contribution

It introduces and evaluates a blind retransmission scheme for C-V2X that improves reliability without feedback, analyzing its performance limitations.

Findings

Blind retransmission increases Packet Reception Ratio (PRR)

Performance is limited by redundant retransmissions

Traffic speed influences retransmission effectiveness

Abstract

In recent years, the next generation of wireless communication (5G) plays a significant role in both industry and academy societies. Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) communication technology has been one of the prominent services for 5G. For C-V2X transmission mode, there is a newly defined communication channel (sidelink) that can support direct C-V2X communication. Direct C-V2X communication is a technology that allows vehicles to communicate and share safety-related information with other traffic participates directly without going through the cellular network. The C-V2X data packet will be delivered to all traffic Users (UE) in the proximity of the Transmitter (Tx). Some UEs might not successfully receive the data packets during one transmission but the sidelink Tx is not able to check whether the Receivers (Rxs) get the information or not due to the lack of feedback channel. For enabling the strict requirements in terms of reliability and latency for C-V2X communication, we propose and evaluate one retransmission scheme and retransmission with different traffic speed scheme. These schemes try to improve the reliability of the safety-related data by one blind retransmission without requiring feedback. Although this retransmission scheme is essential to C-V2X communication, the scheme has a limitation in the performance aspect because of its redundant retransmission. Since radio resources for CV2X communication are limited, we have to detect the effect of retransmission on the performance of the communication system. To the end, the simulator for evaluating the proposed schemes for the C-V2X communication has been implemented, and the performances of the different communication schemes are shown through the Packet Reception Ratio (PRR).