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Table 1 Simulation parameters and values

From: LTE and IEEE 802.11p for vehicular networking: a performance evaluation

Simulation parameters

Values

Number of vehicles (periodic vehicular traffic)

25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150

Vehicle average speed

20, 40, 60, 80, 100 km/h

Beacon transmission frequency

1, 4, 8, 10, 20 Hz

Antenna type

Isotropic/omnidirectional

Simulation area

2,000 m × 2,000 m (2 km × 2 km)

Simulation duration

100 s

Number of vehicles (background traffic)

25

Vehicular traffic (packet size)

256 B

Background traffic (packet size)

1,203 B

Background traffic (data rate)

440 kbps

 

IEEE 802.11p

LTE

Frequency

5.8 GHz

DL-2,110 MHz

UL-1,710 MHz

Channel bandwidth

10 MHz

10 MHz

Transmission power

25 dBm

eNB (40 dBm)/UE (20 dBm)

Propagation loss model

Three log distance Nakagami fading

Friis

Data rate/RB allocation

6 Mbps

DL (50)/UL (50)

  1. For all the other parameters, we used default values in ns-3 (3.17) network simulator.