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Internet of vehicles (IoV) has emerged as a key technology to realize real-time vehicular application. For IoV, vehicles adopt cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) standard to support direct communication among them. C-V2X mode 4 controls…

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This paper presents OpenCV2X, the first publicly available, open-source simulation model of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 14 Cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) sidelink, which forms the basis for 5G NR Mode 2…

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