AirComp-aided Safety-aware CAM Broadcast Rate Control in C-V2X Sidelink

Promising vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication technologies can increase road safety by periodically broadcasting Cooperative Awareness Messages (sCAMs) that contain vehicles' status and attribute information, such as time, location, velocity, motion state, and vehicle type, to all nearby vehicles. However, out-of-date information and prediction deviations may cause potential risks and severe vehicle safety problems. In this paper, we propose an efficient safety-aware CAM broadcast rate control algorithm termed DESBRAC for vehicles to consider more safety metrics and determine the CAM broadcast rates cooperatively. Furthermore, we introduce Over-the-Air Computation (AirComp) to help vehicles aggregate information from their nearby vehicles instantly for metric estimation and cooperative CAM broadcast rate determination. Finally, the simulation results based on a simple and a realistic scenarios of vehicular networks show that our algorithm can achieve an improvement of about 31% in driving safety compared to the state-of-the-art algorithms.