A Novel Procedure of Enhancing the Throughput of a Mode-2 Sidelink Based on Partial Sensing

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 18; p. 6128
• Main Authors: Kang, Seokwon, Choi, Seungwon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 13.09.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: 5G NR mode-2 sidelink; Communication; Data transmission; partial sensing; Roads & highways; roadside unit; Traffic control; V2X
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s21186128

Partial sensing is used to reduce the power consumption of pedestrian user equipment (P-UE) that operates in the signal environment of a mode-2 sidelink. However, because the data trans-mission is allowed only for the window duration of each corresponding P-UE, the throughput of the P-UE decreases by the ratio between the width of the window and the entire data period. This paper presents a novel method for enhancing the throughput of the P-UE that operates with partial sensing in the mode-2 sidelink. The proposed technique employs an additional UE, denoted the roadside unit (RSU), to collect the sensing results from each P-UE that operates with partial sensing. The proposed RSU sequentially aligns all of the partial sensing windows, such that the combination of each partial sensing window can eventually provide an almost complete sensing result. In this study, extensive computer simulations were performed. The results reveal that the proposed method enhances the throughput of each P-UE operating with partial sensing almost to that of full sensing without increasing the required power consumption.