OnlineCruise: An Online Social Grouping Strategy for Vehicular Social Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we present OnlineCruise, an online social grouping strategy for vehicular social networks. OnlineCruise aims at building vehicular social groups for different user-oriented services. It relies on an online publish/subscribe grouping strategy that is based on an efficient and reliable scoped multicasting service (SMS). We evaluate OnlineCruise's performance in terms of efficiency and reliability and show that it improves other approaches by 25% depending on settings.