VeDi: A vehicular crowd-sourced video social network for VANETs

As one of the important members of Internet of Things (IoT), vehicles have seen steep advancement in communication technology.With the advent of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs), vehicles now can evolve into social interactions to share safety, efficiency, and comfort related messages with other vehicles. In this paper, we study vehicular social network from Social Internet of Things (SIoT) perspective and propose VeDi, a vehicular crowd-sourced video social network for VANETs.When a user shares a video in the VeDi, it can be accessed by other surrounding vehicles. Any social interaction (e.g. view, comment, like) with the video on the roadway are stored in the social network cloud along with the video itself. In VeDi, every vehicle maintains a list of video related metadata (e.g. blur and shakiness) of available videos which are used to selectively retrieve quality videos by surrounding vehicles. We also present a method to determine representative quality scores for an entire video clip using blur and shakiness values. The prototype implementations and experimental results denote that the proposed system can be a viable option to create video social networks such as youtube, vine, and vimeo by employing vehicular crowd.

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