NeTS: Small: GOALI: Information Centric Networking on Wheels (IC NoW) - Architecture and Protocols

汽车行业的最新发展指向了一个新兴的车载无线网络领域，在该领域中，配备无线电的车辆可以相互通信并与更广泛的互联网通信，包括交通和安全更新以及信息娱乐内容。该项目的主要目标是为这种车辆网络开发一种混合网络架构，该架构结合了现有的蜂窝基础设施以及新的车对车（V2V）通信能力。假设是，与纯粹的集中式基于蜂窝的方法或纯粹的分布式V2V方法相比，这种混合网络架构将提高成本、容量和鲁棒性。在混合架构下，该项目旨在设计以信息为中心的协议，用于信息传播，聚合和存储，可以利用车辆应用的时空本地化特性。此外，通过数学分析，计算机模拟，以及实验实施的研究车队的车辆，该项目的目的是评估这些协议的性能。该项目将是南加州大学和通用汽车公司研究人员之间的一个独特的汽车工业合作项目。虽然重点将主要放在通过出版物传播给学术界的基础研究上，但与知名行业合作伙伴的密切互动将使研究对现实世界的车辆网络产生重大影响。该研究项目的材料将纳入南加州大学的研究生课程。针对汽车领域的信息技术进步可以通过改善交通安全、效率、用户舒适度和生产力来产生重大的社会影响。

Recent developments in the automotive industry point to a new emerging domain of vehicular wireless networks, in which vehicles equipped with radios can communicate a wide range of information to each other and the wider Internet, including traffic and safety updates as well as infotainment content. The primary goal of this project is to develop a hybrid network architecture for such vehicular networks which combines both the existing cellular infrastructure as well as new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capabilities. The hypothesis is that such a hybrid network architecture will improve cost, capacity and robustness, compared to either a purely centralized cellular-based approach or a purely distributed V2V approach. Under a hybrid architecture, the project aims to design information-centric protocols for information dissemination, aggregation, and storage, that can exploit the spatio-temporally localized nature of vehicular applications. Further, through mathematical analysis, computer simulations, as well as experimental implementation on a research fleet of vehicles, this project aims to evaluate the performance of these protocols. This project will be a unique academia-industry collaborative project between researchers at the University of Southern California and General Motors. While the focus will very much be on basic research disseminated to the academic community through publications, the close interaction with a prominent industry partner will enable the research to have a strong impact on real-world vehicular networks. Material from this research project will be incorporated into graduate courses at USC. The aimed-for advance in information technology for the automotive domain could have significant social impact by enabling improvements in traffic safety, efficiency, user comfort and productivity.