Abstract

Vehicular networks have been investigated by industry and academia for over a decade yet no actual deployments are on the road today; this due to inadequate technical solutions and a vertical market that slows down innovation. Recent innovations in autonomous driving, however, are reinforcing the case for connected vehicles able to communicate both V2I and V2V in support of cooperative driving and machine-to-machine information exchange.

In this talk I will introduce V-NDN a network architecture that argues for an ICN based vehicular networks. Specifically we argue for substituting IP with Named Data as thin waste for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications. V-NDN naturally enables anycast communications and dynamically exploits multiple sources and multiple paths. We will take a journey through V-NDN design and show how this radically new approach is able to address the challenges of frequent connectivity disruptions and sudden network changes typical of vehicular networks.