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Given the tremendous expected market growth, two different technologies have been standardized by international companies and consortia, namely IEEE 802.11p, out for nearly a decade, and short range cellular-vehicle-to-anything (C-V2X), of recent definition. In both cases, evolutions are under discussion. The former is only decentralized and based on a sensing before transmitting access, while the latter is based on orthogonal resources that can be also managed by an infrastructure. Although studies have been conducted to highlight advantages and drawbacks of both, doubts still remain. In this work, with a reference to the literature and the aid of large scale simulations in realistic urban and highway scenarios, we provide an insight in such a comparison, also trying to isolate the contribution of the physical and medium access control layers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi11060122","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,29]],"date-time":"2019-05-29T11:31:28Z","timestamp":1559129488000},"page":"122","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":121,"title":["Survey and Perspectives of Vehicular Wi-Fi versus Sidelink Cellular-V2X in the 5G Era"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3500-1997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Bazzi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5975-7049","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giammarco","family":"Cecchini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Menarini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1094-1985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Barbara M.","family":"Masini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5385-0813","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alberto","family":"Zanella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2019, May 01). 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