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Such flexibility, in fact, needs to be taken into account through a cross-layer approach, which might lead to challenging evaluation processes. As an accurate simulation of the signals appears unfeasible, a typical solution is to rely on simple models for incorporating the PHY layer of the supported technologies based on off-line measurements or accurate link-level simulations. Such data are, however, limited to a subset of possible configurations, and extending them to others is costly when not even impossible. The goal of this paper is to develop a new approach for modeling the PHY layer of V2X communications that can be extended to a wide range of configurations without leading to extensive measurement or simulation campaigns at the link layer. In particular, given a scenario and starting from results in terms of the packet error rate (PER) vs. signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) related to a subset of possible configurations, we first approximated the curves with step functions characterized by a given SINR threshold, and we then derived one parameter, called implementation loss, that was used to obtain the SINR threshold and evaluate the network performance under any configuration in the same scenario. The proposed methodology, leading to a good trade-off among the complexity, generality, and accuracy of the performance evaluation process, was validated through extensive simulations with both IEEE 802.11p and LTE-V2X sidelink technologies in various scenarios. The results first show that the curves can be effectively approximated by using an SINR threshold, with a value corresponding to 0.5 PER, and then demonstrate that the network-level outputs derived from the proposed approach are very close to those obtained with complete curves, despite not being restricted to a few possible configurations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22239330","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,30]],"date-time":"2022-11-30T08:46:41Z","timestamp":1669798001000},"page":"9330","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Methodology for Abstracting the Physical Layer of Direct V2X Communications Technologies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5223-4752","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhuofei","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China"},{"name":"WiLab, CNIT\/DEI, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1428-9776","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stefania","family":"Bartoletti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNIT\/DIE, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2241-8948","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vincent","family":"Martinez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NXP Semiconductors, 31023 Toulouse, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3500-1997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Bazzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"WiLab, CNIT\/DEI, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97953","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2021.3094161","article-title":"On the Design of Sidelink for Cellular V2X: A Literature Review and Outlook for Future","volume":"9","author":"Bazzi","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"107710","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2021.3100472","article-title":"On 5G-V2X Use Cases and Enabling Technologies: A Comprehensive Survey","volume":"9","author":"Alalewi","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_3","first-page":"100428","article-title":"A survey on road safety and traffic efficiency vehicular applications based on C-V2X technologies","volume":"33","author":"Soto","year":"2022","journal-title":"Veh. 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