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Content distribution in a VANET using InterPlanetary file system

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Over the last few years, vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) have been the focus of a great progress due to the interest in autonomous vehicles and in distributing content, not only between vehicles, but also from the Cloud. The main characteristics of VANETs, such as high mobility, intermittent connectivity, scalability and constant changes in the network topology make the content dissemination a challenge, where traditional IP-based dissemination protocols do not present a good result. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol for storing and distributing content, where information is addressed by its content, instead of its location. It has been tested and deployed in wired networks, but never in an environment where nodes have intermittent connectivity, such as a VANET. In this work we propose the use of IPFS in a real vehicular network. We assess its performance in a small real platform, and we propose new modifications and configurations to its support, such as reducing discoverability times. Moreover, we evaluate IPFS in an emulator and in a real city VANET, and we compare it with other content distribution protocols. The obtained results show that IPFS is on par with the Sprinkler vehicular to vehicular protocol, which is built specifically for this use case, and greatly outperforms BitTorrent regarding neighbor discoverability and data transfers.

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  1. https://git-scm.com/

  2. https://www.bittorrent.com/

  3. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf.

  4. https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p.

  5. Adapted from a presentation on Bitswap, September 2019, by Dirk McCormick of Protocol Labs.

  6. https://iperf.fr/

  7. https://github.com/multiformats/go-multihash.

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This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Programme (COMPETE 2020) of the Portugal 2020 framework, and Public and National Financial Support (FCT)(OE) through project MobiWise (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016426), and by the European Regional Development Fund—ERDF, included in the “Urban InnovativeActions” programme, through project Aveiro STEAM City (UIA03-084).

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  1. Carlos Senna, Miguel Luis, Susana Sargento, Ricardo Matos and Diogo Recharte contributed equally to this study.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal

    Ricardo Chaves, Carlos Senna, Miguel Luís & Susana Sargento

  2. Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics (DETI), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal

    Ricardo Chaves & Susana Sargento

  3. ISEL-Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1959-007, Portugal

    Miguel Luís

  4. Veniam, Porto, 4000-098, Portugal

    Ricardo Matos & Diogo Recharte

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Chaves, R., Senna, C., Luís, M. et al. Content distribution in a VANET using InterPlanetary file system. Wireless Netw 29, 129–146 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03096-5

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