Spatiotemporal Analysis on Broadcast Performance of DSRC with External Interference in 5.9 GHz Band

Abstract: Coexistence between the dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) and other wireless technologies needs thorough study since the United States legislative bodies still remain undecided on the shared use of the 5.9 GHz band (5.850-5.925 GHz). If the band is decided to be shared among multiple technologies, the DSRC is expected to experience a performance degradation even in safety-critical application. As such, it is a natural question how much the performance degradation will be. However, it is not trivial to precisely model the behaviors of a vehicular-to-everything (V2X) network since it requires to formulate both spatial and temporal aspects in concert while the network topology keeps dynamic due to the nodes' mobility. Moreover, DSRC relies on broadcast of basic safety messages (BSMs) for supporting safety-critical applications. Most prior work uses performance metrics such as packet delivery rate (PDR) and packet delay, which cannot accurately capture the performance of DSRC broadcasts. To this end, this paper (i) provides a comprehensive analysis framework formulating both spatial and temporal factors in concert and (ii) proposes a new performance metric that can more accurately characterize the broadcast performance of a DSRC network. Based on the new metric, the results present (i) the fundamental performance of a DSRC network under inter-RAT interference from Wi-Fi and C-V2X and (ii) provide suggestions on optimal selection of networking parameters.