12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

VANESS: DNS for Nomadic Users in Vehicular Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260262,
        author={Paulo Santos and Susana Sargento and Jos\^{e} Maria Fernandes},
        title={VANESS: DNS for Nomadic Users in Vehicular Networks},
        proceedings={12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2015},
        month={8},
        keywords={vehicular network user-to-user communication reinvent gateway naming services android},
        doi={10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260262}
    }
    
  • Paulo Santos
    Susana Sargento
    José Maria Fernandes
    Year: 2015
    VANESS: DNS for Nomadic Users in Vehicular Networks
    MOBIQUITOUS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260262
Paulo Santos1, Susana Sargento2,*, José Maria Fernandes3
  • 1: DETI, University of Aveiro
  • 2: Instituto de Telecomunicações, DETI, University of Aveiro
  • 3: IEETA, DETI, University of Aveiro
*Contact email: susana@ua.pt

Abstract

In this paper we propose VANESS, a naming service that supports user-to-user communication on mobile devices within a heterogeneous scenario comprising typical Internet Service providers and ad-hoc networks formed by vehicles and roadside units, VANETs. VANESS provides real-time mapping between users and their current network endpoints, which are vehicle’s nodes on the VANET or an Internet address otherwise. VANESS was fully implemented on Android OS with results proving its feasibility, and on iOS, showing its multi-platform capabilities.