Manager Selection and Resource Allocation for 5G-V2X Platoon Systems with Finite Blocklength

In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic manager selection scheme for vehicles platooning systems and investigate the corresponding resource allocation in the finite blocklength regime, to meet the ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements of safety-related data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to investigate the impact of finite blocklength on communications of vehicles platooning systems. By taking into account the factors of communication and the changes in the platoon structure, the proposed dynamic platoon manager selection scheme enables a significant performance enhancement over the conventional fixed manager scheme where the head vehicle in the platoon acts as a manager. Based on the proposed platoon manager selection scheme, a joint resource allocation and coding rate optimization algorithm is proposed to minimize the intra-platoon groupcast latency. Thanks to the closed-form expression of the optimal coding rate and transmission power derived, the proposed optimization algorithm achieves optimal performance in terms of the intra-platoon groupcast latency and converges within only 3 iterations, with a significant complexity reduction over exhaustive search.