A Study of LTE-V2X Mode 4 Performances in a Multiapplication Context

With the growing importance of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS), 3GPP has standardized LTE-V2X (Long Term Evolution - Vehicle-to-everything) in Release 14 to address specifically vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity. This standard introduces a mode 4, in which vehicles allocate radio resources autonomously without cellular infrastructure support for direct vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. However, as LTE-V2X is a recent technology (compared to WAVE and ITS-G5), it is not sufficiently evaluated in the literature. In this work, we propose an evaluation of LTE-V2X mode 4 performances considering the impact of the parameters of the sensing-based resource allocation mechanism, the traffic load and the Quality of service (QoS) mechanism. In addition, we propose a comparative study of LTE-V2X mode 4 with ITS-G5. Based on several simulation scenarios from 3GPP, we prove that the Sensing-based SPS mechanism parameters and the traffic load significantly impact the performance offered by LTE-V2X. In addition, we show that the QoS mechanism of LTE-V2X outperforms the ITS-G5 one in a realistic multi-application context.