“…A number of approaches have been developed to improve the intersection throughput, i.e., the total number of cars that pass an intersection per unit time, for cooperative autonomous vehicles, while avoiding collisions. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications based DSRC [18] and WAVE [19] standards are utilized by autonomous vehicles to interact with each other or an infrastructure node to exchange the driving information and share the intersection state to decide, if each vehicle can drive through the intersection or it has to stop based on certain criteria [2][3][4][5][6]9,14,15]. In most existing approaches, including [2][3][4][5][6]9,14,15], intersection scheduling decisions are made on the basis of individual vehicles in either a centralized or distributed manner.…”