Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 199-210.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015022

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Vehicular social network:a survey

Xiang WANG1,Su-peng LENG1,Ke ZHANG2,Hao LIU3   

  1. 1 School of Communication and Information Engineering,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 611731,China
    2 Beijing Municipal Transport Operation Coordinate Center,Beijing 100073,China
    3 Beijing Transportation Information Center,Beijing 100073,China
  • Online:2015-01-25 Published:2017-06-21
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China;EU EPT Project CLIMBER;Information Technology Research Projects of Ministry of Transport of China;Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Abstract:

Combining techniques of social networks and wireless communications,vehicular social network (VSN) aim to provide a variety of data delivery services based on the social relationship among vehicle users.With the extensive survey and analysis of existing research work on mobile social network (MSN) and vehicle networks,the architecture and applications of vehicular social network (VSN) as well as the relationship between vehicle networks and social network from a technical viewpoint are presented.The key technologies in VSN are summarized,including the problems and solutions in terms of information delivery,bandwidth allocation,distributed caching,security and privacy.Moreover,future research directions and challenges are presented.

Key words: vehicular social network, mobile social network, vehicle network

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