In recent years, the use of information-centric networks (ICNs) within vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has been shown to be a favourable and deployable future Internet paradigm. Within the context of VANETs, the use of ICNs has many advantages. Indeed, ICNs offer the benefit of in-network content caching and strategies. In addition, ICNs accelerate content retrieval based on the caching of different nodes. Cache deployment within VANETs can be performed at low cost and with low energy consumption. However, the use of ICNs within the VANET context may be challenging. In fact, it may impact network mobility and continuity. Thus, traditional clustering algorithms are not suitable in the context of ICN-based VANETs. In this paper, we propose a new clustering-based approach integrating ICN, called VC-ICN. The aim of our approach is to guarantee network continuity without impacting its mobility when the ICN paradigm is used. We show through simulation, considering scenarios in real-world contexts, that VC-ICN allows vehicles to enhance their content delivery ratio, the average delay for content delivery and the transmission overhead.

近年来，在车载自组织网络 (VANET) 中使用以信息为中心的网络 (ICN) 已被证明是一种有利且可部署的未来互联网范例。在 VANET 的背景下，ICN 的使用具有许多优势。事实上，ICN 提供了网络内内容缓存和策略的好处。此外，ICN 基于不同节点的缓存来加速内容检索。VANET 内的缓存部署可以以低成本和低能耗执行。然而，在 VANET 环境中使用 ICN 可能具有挑战性。事实上，它可能会影响网络移动性和连续性。因此，传统的聚类算法不适用于基于 ICN 的 VANET。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的集成 ICN 的基于聚类的方法，称为 VC-ICN。我们方法的目的是在使用 ICN 范式时保证网络连续性而不影响其移动性。我们通过模拟展示，考虑现实世界中的场景，VC-ICN 允许车辆提高其内容交付率、内容交付的平均延迟和传输开销。