MANY-T0-MANY FILE DISSEMINATION PROTOCOL FOR VEHICULAR NETWORKS

A system and method of wirelessly communicating data originating at a central facility between a plurality of vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle short-range wireless communications includes wirelesslyreceiving, at a seed vehicle, one or more data files that have been encoded into data chunks from a central facility; storing the data chunks included in the received data file(s) at the vehicle; receiving interest messages for the data file(s) at the seed vehicle from each of a plurality of other vehicles via a short-range wireless broadcast, wherein the interest messages include one or more datafile names and, for each data file name, the identity of the data chunks requested; identifying data files and data chunks existing in more than one received interest message; and transmitting the data chunks to the plurality of vehicles via the short-range wireless broadcast. 种使用车对车短程无线通信在多台车辆之间无线地传送源自中央设施的数据的系统和方法包括：在种子车辆处从中央设施无线接收已编码成数据块的更多数据文件；将包括在接收的数据文件中的数据块存储在车辆处；在种子车辆处经由短程无线广播从多台其它车辆中的每台车辆接收数据文件的关注消息，其中关注消息包括个或多个数