Motivated by recent interest in vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure/pedestrian (V2X) communication over the fourth generation of the LTE cellular standard, we study the efficiency of the MBMS, a key enabler for V2X communication, which currently employs only a single antenna transmission. We show that by utilizing additional transmit antennas that are readily available at the base station, and simple space-time coding techniques, a significant boost in performance can be achieved.
