LCE in-network caching on vehicular networks for content distribution in urban environments

ICN/CCN advocates ubiquitous in-network caching to enhance content distribution. Non-safety application in vehicular communication is emerging beyond the initial safety application. However, it suffers from a typical issue of low delivery ratio in urban environments, where high buildings block and attenuate the radio propagation from RSU infrastructures as well as other technical issues. In this paper, LCE in-network caching strategy with LRU algorithm in vehicular networks is proposed according to traffic characteristics in metropolitan areas. We compare this scheme with the legacy TCP/IP based scheme by simulation tools of OMNeT++ & Veins and SUMO. The simulation results validate that the proposed scheme could achieve stronger robustness against obstacles, higher file capture rate and less dependency on RSU infrastructure.