A Survey on Infrastructure-Based Vehicular Networks

Table 2

Main characteristics of wireless access for vehicular networks.

	WAVE IEEE 802.11p	3GPP LTE-A	IEEE 802.15.7 (VLC)	5G
Frequency	5.9 GHz	400 MHz–3.5 GHz	380–800 THz	New bands between 700 MHz and 100 GHz
Data rate	27 Mb/s	3 Gb/s (downlink)	11.67 kb/s–96 Mb/s	Up to 1000 times greater
		1.5 Gb/s (uplink)
Communication range	1000 m	Ubiquitous	100 m	Ubiquitous
Latency	100 ms	100 ms	50 ms	10 ms
Mobility speed	300 km/h	300 km/h	N/A	500 km/h
V2I communication	Supported after deployment of RSUs	Supported	May use the available roads lights	Networks cooperation
V2V communication	Supported	Supported from Release 14 in 5.9 GHz	Supported	Networks cooperation
Deployment	Requiring RSUs set-up	May use the available eNodes B	May use the available LEDs	Upper layers cooperation and management