An Information-Centric Approach for Data Dissemination in Vehicular Networks

The features of information dissemination in vehicular networks make it necessary to introduce Information-Centric Networking (ICN) technique to vehicular networks. However, some design principles of ICN must be implemented and extended in order to realize efficient data dissemination in vehicular networks. This paper proposes an approach for realizing ICN-based data dissemination in vehicular networks. An architecture for organizing and disseminating information in a vehicle is suggested. The concept of cluster of common interest is proposed, with which groups of vehicles can be established dynamically according to the information they are interested in. Within each cluster, information are disseminated to the vehicles in a way decided by the features of the information. To show the feasibility of our approach, the approach has been implemented and tested in the simulation environment.