Named-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: An Application of NDN

Named-data networking (NDN) is a promising communication technology for vehicular networks because it offers mobility support and inherent en route content security. However, vanilla NDN uses pull-based communication that experiences long communication delays that make it ineligible for the cooperative driving applications requiring real-time communications, i.e., platooning. Additionally, it requires a proper content naming convention to enable content communication. Therefore, in this article, we propose a platoon-specific naming and name-based content communication scheme. The proposed protocol minimizes the communication overhead with minimum delay in platooning scenario. The simulation results show that our proposed name-based protocol offers better performance in terms of low commu-nication overhead, delay, and strongly correlated platoon dynamics compared to the vanilla NDN. © 2018 IEEE.