Overcoming the Key Challenges to Establishing Vehicular Communication: Is SDN the Answer?

• Main Authors: Yaqoob, Ibrar, Ahmad, Iftikhar, Ahmed, Ejaz, Gani, Abdullah, Imran, Muhammad, Guizani, Nadra
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2017
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18954/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601183

Considerable development in software-based configurable hardware has paved the way for a new networking paradigm called software-defined vehicular networks (SDVNs). The distinctive features of SDN, such as its flexibility and programmability, can help fulfill the performance and management requireme...