A survey of data dissemination schemes in vehicular named data networking

Abstract

Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) have become a leading technology receiving great attention from various research communities as a pivotal infrastructure for data dissemination in intelligent transportation systems. Data dissemination in VANET is a challenging task due to high dynamics in topology, mobility, and links connection. Internet model (i.e., TCP/IP) is inefficient for VANET data dissemination due to the host/address-centric, and connection-oriented communication mechanism that is fundamentally designed for stable wired networks. Recently, Named Data Networking (NDN) paradigm has been used as a promising perfect-enabler underlying vehicular communication model, i.e., Vehicular Named Data Networking (V-NDN) model. In NDN, the nodes communication involves named-based data-centric operations decoupled from the data provider address/location. Several V-NDN data dissemination schemes have been proposed. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey representing a thorough-critical presentation of recently proposed V-NDN data dissemination solutions and introduce a new fine-grained taxonomy for these solutions. Then, a qualitative comparison of the reviewed solutions based on several parameters is provided. We also suggest a unified performance evaluation metrics in this domain. Finally, we present the open problems in V-NDN data dissemination and highlight the directions of future-oriented solutions. This comprehensive and self-contained survey can contribute to the exploration and understanding of this research domain. Consequently, the future solutions in the aspects of unresolved problems and inefficient resolutions may be directed towards new solving methods.