PHY Abstraction Techniques for IEEE 802.11p and LTE-V2V: Applications and Analysis

IEEE 802.11p and LTE-V2V are wireless standards of interest to enable connected and autonomous driving. To evaluate and compare the performance of these technologies under different channel conditions and reliability requirements, system level evaluations are required. For this purpose, we first present physical layer abstraction (PLA) techniques for IEEE 802.11p and LTE-V2V and then compare their performance using system level simulations. Using the proposed PLA methods, we compare the considered technologies in terms of throughput, latency and reliability. The results show that expected throughput, latency and packet error rate achieved by the proposed PLA methods are close to the bound obtained through full PHY simulations.