Performance analysis of naive vehicular named data networks

Vehicular Named Data Networks (VNDN) is a content centric approach for vehicle networks. The fundamental principle of addressing the content rather than the host, suits vehicular environment. There are numerous challenges such as interest/data flooding, routing, naming schemes, channel constraints and security, among others. The proposed work aims to analyse the behaviour of the naive VNDN under diverse scenarios, which is crucial for devising effective forwarding, caching and security strategies to enhance VNDN's performance. In this paper, the naive VNDN architecture is implemented and its performance is evaluated by considering the metrics such as Throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Interest Satisfaction Delay (ISD), Interest Satisfaction Ratio (ISR), Copies of Data Packets Processed (CDPP) and Hop Count Difference (HCD). These metrics are tested against varying vehicle speed, network size and interests generated by each vehicle in the network. The simulation results provide insights that should be considered while developing the forwarding strategies and caching mechanisms that will improve the performance of VNDN.