The Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard enables, besides cellular connectivity, basic automotive services to promote road safety through vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Nevertheless, stakeholders and research institutions, driven by the ambitious technological advances expected from fully autonomous and intelligent transportation systems, have recently investigated new radio technologies as a means to support vehicular applications. In particular, the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum holds great promise because of the large available bandwidth that may provide the required link capacity. Communications at high frequencies, however, suffer from severe propagation and absorption loss, which may cause communication disconnections especially considering high mobility scenarios. It is therefore important to validate, through simulations, the actual feasibility of establishing V2I communications in the above-6 GHz bands. Following this rationale, in this paper we provide the first comparative end- to-end evaluation of the performance of the LTE and mmWave technologies in a vehicular scenario. The simulation framework includes detailed measurement-based channel models as well as the full details of MAC, RLC and transport protocols. Our results show that, although LTE still represents a promising access solution to guarantee robust and fair connections, mmWaves satisfy the foreseen extreme throughput demands of most emerging automotive applications.


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    Title :

    LTE and Millimeter Waves for V2I Communications: An End-to-End Performance Comparison


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2019-04-01


    Size :

    194784 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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