Social Internet of Vehicles: Architecture and enabling technologies

The key goal of Internet of Things (IoT) has been the provision of value-added services based on the ubiquitously available smart devices that can offer diverse services by interacting with each other. However, the paradigm has evolved to its next phase, Social Internet of Things (SIoT), with the inception of an idea to empower these devices with consciousness. This cognizance enables these smart devices to socialize with each other based on shared context and mutual interests. The Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV) applies SIoT concepts in the vehicular domain to revolutionize the existing ITS (Intelligent Transport System) by adding value to existing VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) technology. This paper presents a scalable SIoV architecture based on Restful web technology. Furthermore, this paper emphasizes the importance of web technology to meet the required interoperability to support the composition of numerous services. The paper also discusses the enabling technologies and protocols.