Resource Allocation for Vehicular Communications With Low Latency and High Reliability

Proximity-based communications have been considered as a promising candidate for supporting vehicular communications. However, the high mobility in vehicular communications makes it hard to obtain accurate fast varying channel information, which poses significant challenges on meeting the requirements of high reliability and low latency. Based only on slowly varying large-scale fading channel information, this paper performs a reliability and latency aware resource allocation, which maximizes the throughput of vehicular-to-network (V2N) links while satisfying reliability and latency requirements of vehicular-to-vehicular (V2V) links. First, we obtain steady-state reliability and latency expressions based on queueing analysis for each possible spectrum reusing pair of a V2N link and a V2V link. Then, an optimal power allocation algorithm is developed for each possible spectrum reusing pair. Afterward, the spectrum reusing pattern is optimized by addressing a polynomial time solvable bipartite matching problem. The simulation results demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed queueing analysis and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed resource allocation comparing with available strategies.