Vehicular social systems
Saida Maaroufi, Samuel Pierre · 2014
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are taking the world by storm and are urging the development of a new type of ad hoc networks that is Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs). The inclusion of social networks within vehicles has attracted researchers to devise social aware routing protocols and architectures in order to build vehicular social communities and to facilitate human interaction between commuters on the road. However, several issues defy the purpose of VSNs. This paper presents an analysis of the relevant work published in this growing new field, as well as an extension of our research work that tackles the problem of data dissemination in VSNs. We first summarize vehicular social architectures. Then we examine the main social properties of VANET drivers that contribute in the design of socially aware routing algorithms. Moreover, we discuss the open research challenges including privacy concerns. Finally, we present SocialDrive, an online social aware publish/subscribe strategy for vehicles transiting in platoons. We evaluate its performance and we show that it improves the quality of real time communication between commuters in dense networks.