V2X Communication Aided Emergency Message Dissemination in Intelligent Transportation Systems

With the development of vehicular networks, the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication aided emergency warning is envisioned to improve the safety of driving service in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). By considering the delay sensitivity of different vehicles receiving warning information, this paper investigates the V2X communication aided emergency message dissemination. Specifically, according to the distance between the vehicle and the emergency point, we divide the vehicles in the coverage of the roadside unit (RSU) into two groups, namely, the primary priority group and the secondary priority group. Then, we formulate a joint optimization problem for content partition, user grouping and channel allocation to improve the resource utilization and the efficiency of emergency message delivery. The objective is to ensure that all vehicles in the primary priority group can reliably receive the warning messages within a fixed deadline, and meanwhile, the RSU can send as many warning messages as possible to the vehicles in the secondary priority group. Despite the nature of mixed integer and non-linear programming problem, we propose a layered approach to solve the problem. Finally, we conduct simulations to validate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, compared to some benchmark algorithms.