Information-centric opportunistic data dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of efficient data dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), which particularly suffer from changing densities in the network topology due to congested and sparse traffic on the roads. We present a new network layer protocol in the family of geographic network protocols, which makes use of distance and time information following a dissemination strategy to efficiently distribute messages adapting to the varying densities in VANETs. We have evaluated the protocol in different road density scenarios and its performance has been proved in comparison to two other recent protocols of the art.