An Information Sharing Method Using P2P and V2V communications in VANET

For realizing information sharing among vehicles, various methods based on P2P (peer-to-peer) and V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communications have been proposed. However, in a case of using a P2P-based method, the network load of a source vehicle will increase due to the increase of receivers. On the other hand, in a case of using a V2V-based method, vehicles cannot communicate with each other if vehicles are far apart. In this paper, we propose an information sharing method among vehicles based on V2V and P2P communications.