Vehicular Social Networks

Description

The book provides a comprehensive guide to vehicular social networks. The book focuses on a new class of mobile ad hoc networks that exploits social aspects applied to vehicular environments. Selected topics are related to social networking techniques, social-based routing techniques applied to vehicular networks, data dissemination in VSNs, architectures for VSNs, and novel trends and challenges in VSNs. It provides significant technical and practical insights in different aspects from a basic background on social networking, the inter-related technologies and applications to vehicular ad-hoc networks, the technical challenges, implementation and future trends.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to VSNs
   1. Vehicular Social Sensor Networks
   2. Architectures for Social Vehicular Network Programmability
2. Data Dissemination in VSNs
   1. Social Clustering of Vehicles
   2. Social Evolving Graph-Based Connectivity Model for Vehicular Social Networks
   3. Socially Inspired Dissemination in VSNs
3. Applications and Security in VSNs
   1. Revealing the Role of Structural Transitivity in Building the Sustainable Community-Aware Vehicular Social Networks
   2. Crowdsourcing Applications for Vehicular Social Networks
   3. Efficacy of ridesharing as the basis for a dependable public transport system for Vehicular Social Networks
   4. Security and Privacy in Vehicular Social Networks