Social-based Cooperation of Vehicles for Data Dissemination of Critical Urban Events

TL;DR

SOCIABLE is a social-based data dissemination system for VANETs that enhances the efficiency and robustness of critical urban event notifications by leveraging vehicles' social interests and routines.

Contribution

It introduces SOCIABLE, a novel social influence-based data dissemination approach for SIoV networks, improving message delivery and reducing network load during critical events.

Findings

Reduced packet transmission by 36.56% in dense VANETs

Achieved a maximum delay of 28ms in sparse VANETs

Delivered real-time, robust critical event data

Abstract

Critical urban events need to be efficiently handled, for instance, through rapid notification. VANETs are a promising choice in supporting notification of information on arbitrary critical events. Although the dynamicity of VANETs compromises the dissemination process, the connections among vehicles based on users' social interests allow for optimizing message exchange and data dissemination. This paper introduces SOCIABLE, a robust data dissemination system for critical urban events that operates in a SIoV network. It is based on vehicles' community with common interests and/or similar routines and employs social influence of vehicles according to their network location to select relay vehicles. In a comparative analysis on NS3 with the MINUET system, SOCIABLE achieved 36.56% less packets transmitted in a dense VANET and a maximum packet delivery delay of 28ms in a sparse VANET, delivering critical event data in a real-time and robust way without overloading the~network.