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This article highlights the importance of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in improving road safety. Current technologies such as IEEE 802.11p and LTE-V2X are being improved, while new radio access technologies promise more reliable, lower-latency communications. Moreover, 3GPP is developing NR-V2X to improve the performance of communications between vehicles, while IEEE proposes the 802.11bd protocol, aiming for the greater interoperability and detection of transmissions between vehicles. Both new protocols are being developed and improved to make autonomous driving more efficient. This study analyzes and compares the performance of the protocols mentioned, namely 802.11p, 802.11bd, LTE-V2X, and NR-V2X. The contribution of this study is to identify the most suitable protocol that meets the requirements of V2V communications in autonomous driving. The relevance of V2V communication has driven intense research in the scientific community. Among the various applications of V2V communication are Cooperative Awareness, V2V Unicast Exchange, and V2V Decentralized Environmental Notification, among others. To this end, the performance of the Link Layer of these protocols is evaluated and compared. Based on the analysis of the results, it can be concluded that NR-V2X outperforms IEEE 802.11bd in terms of transmission latency (L) and data rate (DR). In terms of the packet error rate (PER), it is shown that both LTE-V2X and NR-V2X exhibit a lower PER compared to IEEE protocols, especially as the distance between the vehicles increases. This advantage becomes even more significant in scenarios with greater congestion and network interference.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi16060203","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,6]],"date-time":"2024-06-06T12:04:28Z","timestamp":1717675468000},"page":"203","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Evaluation of Radio Access Protocols for V2X in 6G Scenario-Based Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1555-6821","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"H\u00e9ctor","family":"Orrillo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Universidade Aut\u00f3noma de Lisboa, 1169-023 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Autonoma TechLab, 1169-023 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Ci2\u2014Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Cidades Inteligentes, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7954-3694","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andr\u00e9","family":"Sabino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UNIDCOM, 1200-649 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"IADE, Universidade Europeia, 1200-649 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5498-3220","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"M\u00e1rio","family":"Marques da Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Universidade Aut\u00f3noma de Lisboa, 1169-023 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Autonoma TechLab, 1169-023 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Ci2\u2014Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Cidades Inteligentes, 2300-313 Tomar, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto de Telecomunica\u00e7\u00f5es, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"ITU-R IMT Vision\u2014Framework and overall objectives of the future development of IMT for 2020 and beyond. 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