Survey of Content Naming Schemes in Vehicular Named Data Network

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) has been one of the hot topics for the researchers, industries and academia for the past few decades. However, current IP based architecture is not able to cope up to the demands and researchers have looked out for ways to extend VANET architecture. Two possible collaborations which are strongly focused include Software Defined Networks (SDN) and a paradigm which is considered as part of future internet architecture Named Data Networks (NDN). The NDN architecture provides an edge because of the fundamental working principle, wherein the content is addressed rather than the host. Although, Vehicular Named Data Network (VNDN) is a relatively new field, the advantages it brings about has urged the researchers to explore it more. There are a few issues like content/data forwarding, routing strategies, naming schemes, channel constraints and adding security to the content without increasing overhead, creating gateways an standardization. The paper focuses on various content naming schemes employed in named data based vehicle networks.