Vehicular Networks in the Eyes of Future Internet Architectures

Abstract

The challenging characteristics of the vehicular environment such as high mobility, diversity of applications, dynamic topologies, unreliable broadcast channels, and short-lived connectivity call into the need to extend the IP-based network to fulfill the user and VANETs requirements. Researchers are developing new network communication models to transfer the future internet. The information-centric networking (ICN) paradigm is a promising solution that may overcome the issues mentioned above. ICN involves a named content, name-based routing, in-network caching, and content-based security, which make it a suitable architecture for VANET applications. In this chapter, the authors present recent advances in VANET solutions that rely on named-data networking (NDN), which is the most active ICN implementation. The issues of the current host-centric model, mapping between NDN and VANET, is also discussed along with future research directions.