High-density platooning in cellular vehicle-to-everything systems: on the importance of communication-aware networked control design

Journal
IEEE vehicular technology magazine  
Volume
16
Issue
3
Start Page
66
End Page
74
Article Number
9477075
Citation
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 16 (3): 9477075 (2021-09)
Publisher DOI
10.1109/MVT.2021.3086446
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85112673188
Fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks enable many vehicular communication applications by providing wireless interfaces for the exchange of messages among vehicles [vehicle to vehicle (V2V)] and among vehicles and pedestrians, infrastructure components, and application servers [vehicle to everything (V2X)]. Platoon networked control systems to maintain intervehicle distance (IVD) represent one of the most demanding use cases in V2X. Closed-loop feedback controllers introduced decades ago have been demonstrated to work with string stability and IVDs of only a few meters at highway speeds. However, the effects of temporally and spatially correlated packet losses, as experienced at the cell edge and during handovers, have not been sufficiently analyzed.
DDC Class
600: Technology