Are vehicular networks small world?

Author

Cunha, Felipe D. ; Carneiro Vianna, Aline ; Mini, Raquel A. F. ; Loureiro, Antonio A. F.

Author_Institution

Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

April 27 2014-May 2 2014

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

196

Abstract

Daily, vehicles in transit in a city and during their trajectories encounter other vehicles. The regularity of these encounters is influenced by several elements, such as: vehicle´s speed, destinations, traffic conditions, and the period of the day. It is possible to justify these elements by road conditions and the driver´s behavior. People have routines and similar behaviors, which strongly impact the daily traffic evolution. An alternative to understand this evolution is to look to the vehicles´ mobility under a social perspective. Thus, we present a social analysis of real and realistic traces that describe the mobility of a set of vehicles. Social metrics are computed and the obtained results are compared to random graphs. Initial results showed the presence of social characteristics in the vehicular mobility.

Keywords

road traffic; vehicular ad hoc networks; VANET; social analysis; social characteristics; social metrics; traffic conditions; traffic evolution; vehicle mobility; vehicular ad hoc networks; vehicular mobility; vehicular networks; Cities and towns; Computer networks; Educational institutions; Measurement; Social network services; Trajectory; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2014 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOMW.2014.6849222

Filename

6849222