A Domain-Specific Comparison of Information-Centric Networking Architectures for Connected Vehicles.

The networking of components, machines, and everyday objects is progressing rapidly. Such development also affects the automotive industry. In the future, vehicles will be connected with other vehicles, infrastructure components or cloud servers. This raises the question, whether the current host-centric communication model of today's networks is ready for networking billions of new devices. In recent years, information-centric networking (ICN) has been identified as a potential paradigm to solve the issues set by connected vehicles. This paper provides a detailed examination of the different available ICN approaches regarding the specific requirements of connected vehicles. While some first publications showed the principal applicability of particular ICN architectures in vehicular ad-hoc networks, a detailed comparison has not been conducted yet. This paper closes the gap by discussing and comparing the available ICN architectures in an automotive context and identifies open research questions in ICN.