Information-Centric Content Management Framework for Software Defined Internet of Vehicles Towards Application Specific Services

Abstract

Software defined network (SDN) architectures are assimilated with vehicular communication networks in order to improve the real-time application support for the driving users. Internet of vehicles (IoV) paradigm provides information-centric application support for the road-side users. Information sharing through the road-side units (RSUs) influences the application services due to the frequent change in physical attributes of the vehicles. Considering the application oriented services and information handling in IoV, this article introduces information-centric content management framework (ICMF) for effective information utilization in the vehicular networks. This framework performs data acquisition, smoothing and management process for effective information analysis and better offloading. The proposed framework incorporates the functions of linear vector quantization for classifying acquired information and segregating it for maximum utilization. This quantization is recurrent in both continuous and alternating learning process to improve the reliability of information handling and management. The performance of the proposed framework is verified using simulations and the results prove its efficiency. The proposed framework is found to maximize resource utilization and offloading ratio with less analysis time and overhead. The simulation is verified for the varying density of vehicles, offloading ratio, and communication time, information utilization.