Spectrum and Power Allocation for Vehicular Communications With Delayed CSI Feedback

Channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS) is critical to resource allocation design for wireless networks, but it is hard to obtain accurate CSI in a high mobility vehicular environment. In this letter, we study the spectrum and power allocation problem in device-to-device-enabled vehicular networks, where CSI of vehicular links is only reported to the BS periodically. We maximize the sum throughput of all vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links while guaranteeing the reliability of each vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) link with the delayed CSI feedback. We propose a low-complexity algorithm to find the optimal spectrum sharing strategy among V2I and V2V links and properly adjust their transmit powers. Its desirable performance is confirmed by computer simulation.