InP-CRS: An Intra-Platoon Cooperative Resource Selection Scheme for C-V2X Networks

This letter proposes an Intra-Platoon Cooperative Resource Selection (InP-CRS) scheme for frequency-time resource selection to support reliable intra-platoon message delivery. The proposed InP-CRS scheme is based on the standardized sensing-based semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) scheme designed for C-V2X mode 4 and is intended to address the hidden-node problem in intra-platoon communication. Specifically, the InP-CRS scheme introduces an intra-platoon cooperative mechanism, in which the last member of a platoon needs to report the frequency-time resource occupation information of the platoon's hidden nodes to the platoon leader (PL) so that the PL can exclude those resources occupied by the hidden nodes of the platoon during its resource selection. In this way, potential packet collisions caused by the hidden nodes of a platoon can be largely reduced. Simulation results show that the proposed InP-CRS scheme can effectively improve the reliability of intra-platoon message delivery in terms of the successful broadcast probability of a PL as compared to the standardized sensing-based SPS scheme.