Applications and Challenges in Internet of Vehicles: A Survey

Abstract

AbstractThe Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is one of the trending concepts in the automotive industry domain. It introduces the idea of smart transportation and smart cities due to the merging of Internet of things (IoT) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). IoV intends to overcome the existing flaws of VANETs to improve traffic efficiency, safety and ease the driving experience. The main objective of IoV is to strengthen the existing intelligent transportation systems (ITS) by the use of numerous intelligent technologies like cloud computing, intelligent sensing techniques, fog computing, Edge computing, etc. It has achieved a lot of market attention due to reliable Internet connectivity, smart device compatibility, smart decision making, and heterogeneous vehicular network and thus is a better alternative for existing transportation systems. In this paper, an extensive survey is conducted to focus on the comparison of VANETs and IoV networks to give the researchers a clear understanding of the difference between these two networks. Also, a sincere attempt is made to explore the diverse range of applications of IoV in detail before bringing it into actual deployment. In the last, open problems of IoV are also outlined that need to be resolved while deploying the IoV network.KeywordsApplicationsEfficiencyHazardsIntelligenceIoVSmart citiesSafetyVANETsVehicle