Vehicular Named-Data Networking: Background, State of the Art, and Challenges. A Review

With the emergence of Information-Centric Networking as a potential paradigm shift in the computer networking field, the coupling between VANETS and Named-Data Networking, known as VNDN, has gained momentum as a promising communication standard to foster the deployment of inter-vehicular communications in the real world, calling the attention of the research community. This work presents a concise VNDN review focusing on the background concepts. We also analyze the current status and open challenges, including the prominent data naming and caching approaches and the most efficient Interest and Data message forwarding and delivery strategies.