Title :
Are vehicular networks small world?
Author :
Cunha, Felipe D. ; Carneiro Vianna, Aline ; Mini, Raquel A. F. ; Loureiro, Antonio A. F.
Author_Institution :
Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
fDate :
April 27 2014-May 2 2014
Abstract :
Daily, vehicles in transit in a city and during their trajectories encounter other vehicles. The regularity of these encounters is influenced by several elements, such as: vehicle´s speed, destinations, traffic conditions, and the period of the day. It is possible to justify these elements by road conditions and the driver´s behavior. People have routines and similar behaviors, which strongly impact the daily traffic evolution. An alternative to understand this evolution is to look to the vehicles´ mobility under a social perspective. Thus, we present a social analysis of real and realistic traces that describe the mobility of a set of vehicles. Social metrics are computed and the obtained results are compared to random graphs. Initial results showed the presence of social characteristics in the vehicular mobility.
Keywords :
road traffic; vehicular ad hoc networks; VANET; social analysis; social characteristics; social metrics; traffic conditions; traffic evolution; vehicle mobility; vehicular ad hoc networks; vehicular mobility; vehicular networks; Cities and towns; Computer networks; Educational institutions; Measurement; Social network services; Trajectory; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOMW.2014.6849222
