A novel algorithm to control contents selectively for vehicular communication networks

With the development of recent vehicular communication technologies, distributing multimedia contents in the vehicular communication networks (VCNs) has become more and more popular, to provide conveniences and entertainment services during the time of driving. However, as multimedia contents are changed and updated dynamically, how to keep the consistency between the original and these replicas in VCNs is very important. Therefore, this paper designs a novel algorithm to control the consistency for the VCNs. In our proposal, after the analyses of the status of road-side units, on-board units and local geographical information, we divide all replicas into different groups, where one is necessary for update and the other are not. Then, we compare the cost to update replicas by using wireless and wired connection, and propose a method to make selection between them. The performance of our proposal is tested by simulation experiments. And the results show that our method can obtain the low delay successfully.