Towards VANET-NDN: A Framework for an Efficient Data Dissemination Design Scheme

The Named Data Networking (NDN) paradigm is a recent approach of Information-Centric networking (ICN) which has attracted researchers from different domains as it promises an alternative communication paradigm. NDN provides scalable, efficient, and secure data dissemination for various applications. NDN is a data-centric communication based on simple and effective working principles that combine content naming, name-based routing and forwarding, in-network caching, and data-centric security. A known NDN research application is for Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET). VANET is a special case of Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET), where nodes are vehicles that distribute data from various applications among them and with the infrastructure. VANET has its issues; the host-centric TCP/IP model, in content discovery and delivery due to the nature of the vehicular networks, which has a highly dynamic topology, sporadic connectivity, and various applications types. NDN is being studied as an alternative underlying communication model for VANET. The research, which has been conducted in the NDN-enable VANET (VANET-NDN) sphere, can be classified into surveys and reviews, investigation of the applicability and suitability of VANET over NDN, and proposed solutions for VANET-NDN issues. According to prior works, efficient and scalable data dissemination for VANET over NDN still a challenge. In order to alleviate this challenge, this paper seeks to introduce a multi-layered framework as multiple phases systematic approach for an efficient VANET-NDN data dissemination design scheme. In addition, it identifies the main components and issues of VANET-NDN model in a layered approach based on the proposed framework.