ICN routing selecting scheme based on link quality for the urban vehicles’ communication

Abstract It is difficult for TCP/IP to manage the mobile nodes in the dynamic environment of VANET (Vehicular Ad hoc Network), so combining urban VANET with a new network architecture—ICN (information-centric network)—this paper proposes a FIB (forwarding information base) selecting scheme based on link quality, and we name it as RSBLQ (Routing Selecting Based on Link Quality). The metrics of link quality in RSBLQ are mainly LET (link expiration time) and link available probability. To reduce network delay, cache redundancy, and network traffic, our RSBLQ has the following designs: (1) we modify the structure of PIT (pending interest table) by adding two domains: receive time and tolerance time; (2) we introduce the algorithm of LET to help with the content routing selection in FIB; (3) RSBLQ also gets the link available probability to be another metric for our algorithm. Simulation results show that in terms of average response time, the performance improvement of RSBLQ is about 10, 15–20, and 60% compared to CCVN, V-NDN, and TCP/IP, respectively; it approximately has 8 and 13.8% improvement than CCVN and V-NDN about cache hit ratio; and the network traffic also decreases a lot