LTE resource scheduling for vehicular safety applications

Abstract

The support of LTE for vehicular safety applications has been studied in recent years. One problem is the bandwidth capability of LTE to support regularly transmitted cooperative awareness messages. In this paper, we discussed the effect of different scheduling methods on cooperative message transmissions. The capacity of dedicated connection has been analyzed and compared with different configurations. We also proposed a semi-adaptive beaconing approach for semi-persistent scheduling and analyzed its ability to support vehicular applications.