Internet of Vehicles: Architectures, Protocols and Communication Technologies

For easy life in which everything is reachable through available applications and technologies related with communication systems, it is important to connect everything in our life together via new technology known as Internet of Thing (IoT). A special case of IoT is the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) which in this paper we review in briefing its architectures, applications, clustering methods, standards and protocols. Since we are in mobility always, then communicating with resources that available on internet or any system that provides any service is not easy unless we utilize things in our surrounding environment to be used as a connected network, things (like vehicles specially) where connected with each other or with road base stations will form a special network known as Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). For different IoV architecture types different applications are performed, some of these applications required clustering techniques to provide more managing on vehicular networks. For reliable communication many wireless communication technologies based special protocols are discussed, explaining the cases in which each technologies and related protocols are utilized, considering the utilization of a combined wireless communication technologies in some cases for more reliable communication.