A Study on E2E Performance Improvement of Platooning Using Outdoor LiFi

Platooning within autonomous vehicles has proven effective in addressing driver shortages and reducing fuel consumption. However, as platooning lengths increase, traditional C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything) architectures are susceptible to end-to-end (E2E) latency increases. This is due to the necessity of relaying information through multiple hops from the leader vehicle to the last vehicle. To address this problem, this paper proposes a hybrid communication architecture based on a simulation that integrates light fidelity (LiFi) and C-V2X. The proposed architecture introduces multiple-leader vehicles equipped with outdoor LiFi communication nodes in platoons to achieve high-speed and low-delay communication between leader vehicles, which reduces E2E delay.