A Data Dissemination Method for Information Sharing Based on Inter-Vehicle Communication

In an Intelligent Transport System (ITS), information sharing based on inter-vehicle communication is effective for improving data availability. In this paper, we propose a data dissemination method for sharing data items among vehicles, which increases the opportunity for vehicles to acquire more fresh data items that users request. In our proposed method, vehicles are grouped according to their locations, and movement directions are estimated from their route information. Then, data items that are more likely to be accessed in the near future are disseminated between two groups. We also present simulation results to evaluate the performance of our proposed method.