Optimal Routing Protocol For Efficient Communication in a Social Vehicular Content-Centric Network

Social vehicular network has been deployed as a futuristic network architecture. The aim of this emerging technology is to provide an efficient communication between vehicles for the vehicular content centric Networks (VCCN). In VCCN, those vehicles which are interested in same content, makes a cluster and form a community. In this community, one vehicle selects as head to forward the packets to infrastructure. However, vehicles are highly mobile and change the topology frequently. The disruptive communication links between vehicles and head node creates a broadcasting storm in the network. It also increases communication delay. To overcome this issue, we proposed an optimal routing protocol for an efficient communication in a social vehicular content-centric network (SVCCN). The novelty of the proposed routing protocol is multimedia content dissemination, and network load management, so that content is always available in the network. The proposed work is simulated in ns2, results supports high PDR, within minimum network load and high cache hit ratio.