Thanks to the deployment of new techniques to support high data rate, high reliability, and QoS provision, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) can be applied for diverse applications. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is one of the evolving applications for LTE technology to improve traffic safety, to minimize congestion, and to ensure comfortable driving which requires stringent reliability and latency requirements. As mentioned in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), LTE-based Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is an enabler for V2X services to meet these requirements. Therefore, radio resource management (RRM) is important to efficiently allocate resources to V2X communications. In this paper, we present the V2X communications, their requirements and services, the V2X-based LTE-D2D communication modes, and the existing resource allocation algorithms for V2X communications. Moreover, we classify the existing resource allocation algorithms proposed in the literature and we compare them according to selected criteria.

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SUMMARYIn this article, we propose new methods to reduce the handoff blocking probability in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution wireless networks. This reduction is based on an adaptive call admission control scheme that provides QoS guarantees and gives the priority of handoff call over new call in admission. The performance results of the proposed schemes are compared with other competing methods using simulation analysis. Simulation results show the major impact on the performance of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution network, which is reflected in increased resource utilization ratio to (99%) and in the ability in satisfying the requirements of QoS in terms of call blocking probability (less than 0.0628 for Voice over IP service) and dropping probability rate (less than 0.0558).Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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