A Light-Weight Communication-Efficient Data Sharing Approach in 5G NR V2X

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Ledger-based communication method in 5G NR V2X that significantly reduces collision probability in BSMs, enhancing autonomous driving safety.

Contribution

It proposes a novel Ledger concept for collision information sharing that improves collision avoidance in 5G V2X communication.

Findings

Ledger reduces collision probability to near zero.

The system sacrifices 14.29% of resources for improved safety.

Simulation confirms effectiveness of the Ledger approach.

Abstract

Timeliness of information is critical for Basic Safety Messages (BSMs) in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication to enable highly reliable autonomous driving. However, the current semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) algorithms in the 5th generation New Radio (5G NR) standard can still generate collisions probability, close to 20% with 100 vehicles per kilometer, such that they cannot meet this requirement for BSMs. This paper proposes a Ledger concept, which can communicate collision information to every vehicle in the network within one Resource Reservation Interval (RRI) through the broadcasting of Ledger information. The colliding vehicle is aware that it has collided with other vehicles and will reselect for the next SPS period. Besides that, other protocols follow the SPS. Although it sacrifices 14.29% of resources by including Ledger, it can eventually reduce the collision probability. In this paper, a Monte Carlo simulator is used to verify and analyze the performance of the Ledger system. Numerical results show that abide by the SPS protocol, the Ledger system can make the collision probability converge to zero after amount of RRIs.