OpContent - Opportunistic Content Delivery in vehicular networks

随着最近无线通信和车载网络的进步，我们看到人们对基于V2X的应用越来越感兴趣，在这种应用中，车辆基本上连接到一切(V2X)。然而，这种V2X应用的设计仍然是一个基本的和开放的研究问题，因为没有相应的通用和广泛的原则来设计通过车载网络的内容交付，这带来了许多开放的新挑战。在这个项目中，我们专注于机会主义内容交付，以支持下一代车载网络应用，如紧急和自然灾害管理、社交网络、实时音频/视频通信、内容共享、社交或混合电视、视频点播、畅通无阻的交通、合作避免碰撞、无人驾驶车辆和排队。设想的安全和信息娱乐应用程序将需要交付多媒体内容，如图像、照片、音频和视频，远远超出文本消息警告。这些场景和多媒体类型车载应用的苛刻要求对车载网络协议提出了巨大的挑战，车载网络协议必须处理通过V2X通信传输和传送超大数据量的多媒体数据。因此，我们的目标是为基于V2X的应用程序车载网络设计一套新的协议，用于机会性内容交付解决方案。我们将使用分析和模拟方法来验证和评估我们提出的解决方案的性能。我们还计划使用我们研究实验室中的基础设施来设计一个真正的试验台。我们相信，OpContent中提出的技术和原型平台将作为V2X未来各种研究项目和应用的孵化器。我们的目标是围绕V2X建立一个持续的研究核心，用于内容交付和以信息为中心的相关服务和应用。

With the recent advances of wireless communication and vehicular networking, we are witnessing a growing interest into V2X based applications, in which vehicles are basically connected to everything (V2X). However, the design of such V2X applications still remains a fundamental and open research problem since there are no corresponding general and broad principles for designing content delivery through vehicular networks, posing numerous open new sets of challenges. In this project, we focus on the opportunistic content delivery for enabling the next generation of vehicular network applications, such as Emergency and Natural DisasterManagement, Social Networking, Real-Time Audio/Video Communication, Content Sharing, Social or Hybrid TV, Video-on-Demand, Free Flowing Traffic, Cooperative Collision Avoidance, Driverless Vehicles, and Platooning. The envisioned safety and infotainment applications will require the delivery of multimedia content, such as images, photos, audio, and video, well beyond text message warnings. These scenarios and the stringent requirements of the multimedia type vehicular applications pose a great challenge to vehicular network protocols, which must deal with the transportation and delivery of an extremely large amount of multimedia data through V2X communication. Our goal therefore consists of designing a novel suite of protocols for opportunistic content delivery solution for V2X based applications vehicular networks. We shall validate and evaluate the performance of our proposed solutions using both analytical and simulation methods. We also plan to design a real testbed using the infrastructure we have in our research laboratory. We believe the technologies and prototype platform proposed in the OpContent will act as an incubator for various future research projects and applications of V2X. Our objective is to build a continuing research nucleus around V2X for content delivery and information centric related services and applications.