Is 30 MHz Enough for C-V2X?

Abstract

Connected vehicles are no longer a futuristic dream coming out of a science fiction, but they are swiftly taking a bigger part of one's everyday life. One of the key technologies actualizing the connected vehicles is vehicle-to-everything communications (V2X). Nonetheless, the United States (U.S.) federal government decided to reallocate the spectrum band that used to be dedicated to V2X uses (namely, the "5.9 GHz band") and to leave only 40% of the original chunk (i.e., 30 MHz of bandwidth) for V2X. It ignited concern of whether the 30-MHz spectrum suffices key V2X safety messages and the respective applications. This paper aims at addressing this issue with the particular focus on the New Radio (NR)-V2X Mode 1. We lay out an extensive study on the safety message types and their latency requirements. Then, we present our simulation results examining whether they can be supported in the 30-MHz spectrum setup.