I. Introduction
Technology has made its way into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) paradigms [1]. These paradigms rely on active communication and sensing, e.g., WiFi, WiMax, short-range radar, active RFID tags, etc. The active communication links are employed in two generally diverse, yet mutual schemes to acquire events information from outside sources. The first scheme is the vehicular ad-hoc wireless communication, i.e., the V2V model and the second scheme makes use of fixed infrastructure-based wireless communication, i.e., the V2I model. Diverse approaches have been investigated in the literature, employing these schemes for efficient data dissemination. Sophisticated routing, (e.g., location-aided routing [2], trajectory based routing[3], gossiping-based routing [4] and flooding), relaying protocols [5], [6], opportunistic and delaytolerant approaches, (e.g., spray-and-wait[7], epidemic [8] and message ferrying methods [9]) and medium access protocols [10], [11] have been studied extensively in the context of ITS.