Towards a decentralized architecture for information dissemination in Inter-Vehicles Networks

Inter-Vehicles Networks (IVNs) have emerged as a new environment for intelligent transportation applications. The implementation of these applications requires dealing with many issues. The design and the implementation of an efficient and scalable architecture for information dissemination constitute one major issue. In this paper, a decentralized architecture inspired by stigmergy and direct communication between Ants is presented. The Ants colony has a set of organizing principles, such as scalability and adaptability that are useful for developing a decentralized architecture in highly dynamic networks. Simulations are conducted using Starlogo simulator and some metrics such as information relevance and drivers' awareness are evaluated. Preliminary results are reported to first show the effectiveness of the proposed information dissemination strategy.