A wide variety of applications for road safety and traffic efficiency are intended to answer the urgent call smarter, greener, safer mobility. Although IEEE 802.11p is considered de facto standard on-the-road communications, stakeholders have recently started investigate usability LTE support vehicular applications. In this article, related work running standardization activities scanned critically discussed; strengths weaknesses as an enabling technology communications analyzed; open issues...

In view of evolving the Internet infrastructure, ICN is promoting a communication model that fundamentally different from traditional IP address-centric model. The approach consists retrieval content by (unique) names, regardless origin server location (i.e., address), application, and distribution channel, thus enabling in-network caching/replication content-based security. expected benefits in terms improved data dissemination efficiency robustness challenging scenarios indicate high...

The multitude of key vertical markets targeted by 5G networks calls for the support multiple network slices on a common and programmable infrastructure. A slice is intended as collection logical functions parameter configurations tailored to requirements particular service. In this article, we present our vision design slice(s) customized vehicle-to-everything services, which involve vehicles exchanging data with each other, infrastructure any communicating entity improved transport...

In the connected vehicle ecosystem, a high volume of information-rich and safety-critical data will be exchanged by roadside units onboard transceivers to improve driving traveling experience. However, poor-quality wireless links mobility vehicles highly challenge delivery. The IP address-centric model current Internet barely works in such extremely dynamic environments poorly matches localized nature majority vehicular communications, which typically target specific road areas (e.g.,...

IEEE 802.11p/WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) is an emerging family of standards intended to support wireless access Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Broadcasting data and control packets expected be crucial this environment. Both safety-related non-safety applications rely on broadcasting for the exchange or status advertisement messages. Most traffic designed delivered a given frequency during channel (CCH) interval set by WAVE draft standard. The rest time, vehicles switch over...

The Named Data Networking (NDN) project is emerging as one of the most promising information-centric future Internet architectures. Besides NDN recognized potential a content retrieval solution in wired and wireless domains, its innovative concepts, such named content, name-based routing in-network caching, particularly suit requirements Things (IoT) interconnecting billions heterogeneous objects. IoT highly differs from today's due to resource-constrained devices, massive volumes small...

Effective data broadcasting is essential in vehicular networks not only for road-safety message dissemination but also to aid routing and cooperative driving applications through periodic beaconing spread network initialization advertisements that are mandatory support infotainment applications. Broadcast neither acknowledged nor retransmitted case of failure, which raises the possibility frame loss due channel errors collisions with multiple simultaneous broadcasts. This paper aims at...

Vehicular ad hoc networks are the key to provisioning safety-critical and commercial services on road. Multiple channels assigned in 5 GHz spectrum support these services. In this article an overview of multichannel architecture proposed by standardization bodies United States Europe is presented. The main contribution identification open challenges for coordination, synchronization, access. Discussions related countermeasures, fully explored neither standards nor scientific literature, aim...

In this paper we propose an innovative networking architecture for content retrieval and distribution in Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs), that leverages the recently proposed Content-Centric Networking (CCN) paradigm. It is based on named contents instead of IP addresses, seems attractive opportunity to handle dynamic, short-lived intermittent connectivity typical VANETs.

The new era of Internet Things (IoT) is driving the revolution in computing and communication technologies spanning every aspect our lives. Thanks to its innovative concepts, such as named content, name-based routing in-network caching, Named Data Networking (NDN) appears a key enabling paradigm for IoT. Despite potential, support IoT applications often requires some modifications NDN engine more efficient effective exchange packets. In this paper, we propose baseline framework reliable...

The Information-Centric Networking (ICN) paradigm for the future Internet is fundamentally different from classic host-centric Protocol (IP). By leveraging unique, persistent and location-independent content names, ICN provides native multicast support, content-based security, in-network caching, easy data access, which can be especially useful in of Things (IoT). In this paper, attention on design an framework tailored to smart home domain, considered as a major representative IoT...

Managing resources in dynamic vehicular environments is a tough task, which becoming more challenging with the increased number of access technologies today available connected cars (e.g., IEEE 802.11, LTE), variety applications provided on road safety, traffic efficiency, and infotainment), amount driving awareness/coordination required local, context, cooperative awareness), level automation toward zero-accident platooning autonomous driving). The open programmability logically centralized...

Platooning is the first step toward fully autonomous driving, which deemed as one of most representative fifth-generation (5G) use cases. Spacing and speed in a platoon vehicles are regulated by automated control system that relies on updated vehicles? kinematics data. In this article, we investigate potential long-term evolution (LTE) device-todevice (D2D) communications for data dissemination platoon. Exploiting pooled LTE resources coordination in-front vehicle platoon, proposed solution...

Platooning is a cooperative driving application where autonomous/semi-autonomous vehicles move on the same lane in train-like manner, keeping small constant inter-vehicle distance, order to reduce fuel consumption and gas emissions achieve safe efficient transport. To this aim, they may exploit multiple on-board sensors (e.g., radars, LiDARs, positioning systems) direct vehicle-to-vehicle communications synchronize their manoeuvres. The main objective of paper discuss design choices factors...

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has recently published a new set of specifications to enable advanced driving applications in fifth generation (5G) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenarios, with particular effort dedicated the sidelink resource allocation autonomous mode, named Mode 2. In this paper, we conduct comprehensive analysis 2 performance via an open-source system-level simulator, which implements 5G New Radio (NR) flexible numerology and physical layer aspects together...

Content-centric networking is a new paradigm conceived for future Internet architectures, where communications are driven by contents instead of host addresses. This has key potentialities to enable effective and efficient in the challenging vehicular environment characterized short-lived connectivity highly dynamic network topologies. We design CRoWN, content-centric framework ad-hoc networks, which implemented on top IEEE 802.11p standard layers fully compliant with them. Performance...

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising paradigm for the future Internet architecture that also opens new perspectives in way data can be retrieved Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, we explore potentialities of NDN applied to WSNs and propose enhancements forwarding strategy by including principles inspired traditional data-centric routing schemes. Results achieved through ndnSIM simulator confirm viability effectiveness proposal.