Interoperability of C-V2X and DSRC for V2X Communications : Application in Smart Parking Guidance

Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) and cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X), along with their advancements—IEEE 802.11bd and NR V2X—are two modern technologies capable of supporting early-stage vehicular applications. Both DSRC and C-V2X are being significantly upgraded to meet the demands of advanced vehicle applications, which require high reliability, low latency, and high data throughput. One such application is smart parking guidance. With the increasing volume of vehicles and the expanding use of V2X, a singular technology is not expected to handle the demands. To enable efficient V2X communications, the literature has explored methods for interconnecting DSRC and cellular networks. In this paper, we introduced a hybrid approach combining both DSRC and C-V2X technologies to support a smart parking guidance application. We developed a model for our proposal and as a future work we will use traffic and network simulations to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.