Interference Graph-Based Resource-Sharing Schemes for Vehicular Networks

This paper investigates the resource-sharing problem in vehicular networks, including both vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication links. A novel underlaying resource-sharing communication mode for vehicular networks is proposed, in which different V2V and V2I communication links are permitted to access the same resources for their individual data transmission. To solve the resource-sharing problem in vehicular networks, we, for the first time, apply graph theory and propose the following two interference graph-based resource-sharing schemes: 1) the interference-aware graph-based resource-sharing scheme and 2) the interference-classified graph-based resource-sharing scheme. Compared with the traditional orthogonal communication mode in vehicular networks, the proposed two resource-sharing schemes express better network sum rate. The utility of the proposed V2V and V2I underlaying communication mode and the two proposed interference graph-based resource-sharing schemes are verified by simulations.