Named Data Networking in VANET: A Survey

Named Data Networking is futuristic data oriented communication model, currently applied to different area of networking. VANET is one area of networking, that named data networking applied on it, to overcome the problem of classically TCP/IP based architecture. As VANET has become a likely area in wireless communication, which can provide a lot of service: traffic efficiency, road safety, and driving comfort. So, Named data networking architecture provide a lot purpose for VANET such as in network caching, security and efficient data distribution between vehicles due to caching capabilities in NDN, this feature make VANET more efficient than TCP/IP network. In existing IP based internet architecture the end points identified by IP addresses but in NDN contents are named with human readable names that provide VANET to retrieve data by sending content name without knowing the location of the provider. This paper also present some research challenge in the VANET via NDN.