Predecessors take cooperative downloading method to solve this delay issue, while this method need mutual cooperation between vehicles, but a incentive mechanism for this cooperative downloading method still has not been put forward. This paper based on cooperative downloading method to design the incentive mechanism, to encourage cooperation between vehicles, and help users to receive the needed resources effectively. For describe the design of incentive mechanism, this paper first analysis the characteristics of the highway scenarios and cooperative downloading method. Finally propose the incentive mechanism, and illustrates how this mechanism works.
Keywords-HighwayScenarios; VANET; cooperative downloading Method; Incentive Mechanism I INTRODUCTION With the development of communication technology, more and more people widely use all kinds of communications equipment to browse a variety of information through the Internet at any time anywhere. Therefore, in the VANET, the demand of access to the Internet to download content is increasing. In the vehicle, using 3G or 4G communications network can easily access the Internet, but due to its poor quality of service and expensive cost, it is generally not be select by users. With the roadside AP large-scale deployment in the recent years, researchers consider using 802.11 standard to linked vehicle with the road infrastructure (AP) [1], with Internet information exchange, and its feasible also has been confirmed. However, the vehicle as a node moving fast in short period of time will be traveling longer distances. But the communication service range of the AP is limited. when the distribution of AP is relatively sparse, Dark Area(DA) may be exist between two of the AP's communication service range. When vehicles driving into DA, the connection with Internet will be interrupted, the car could not have downloaded resources in this AP's communication service range, and only wait for the download when the vehicle driving to the next AP's communication service range [2]. A typical example is that in a highway Scenarios, AP is usually provided in the gas station or service area. Service area laid average spacing is about 50 km -60 km. Using 802 11a / b / g / p-standard the AP communication service range is about 300m-1300m, the maximum transfer rate is 54Mbps. When the cars get access to the Internet with the help of WLAN, it will lose contact with the Internet in length of 49 km-59 km. We can assume that cars can drive with the speed of 100 km per hour, then, vehicle can drive within one minute in the range of AP communication service, and they may drive in the DA in 29 min-35min. When a vehicle have just leave the AP area and come up with the Internet request, it will waiting for 29 min-35min. They can never start the operation until they have driven into the next AP area. Apparently, the users can never accept such a delay. Conscequently, how to help the users get the sources with no stop has become a problem. We are looking for a better way to download files with the ...