Tutorial InformationCentric Vehicular Networking: Why and Wherefores, Challenges, and Design Guidelines We are witnessing the development of the new era of the vehiclesxe2x80x99 evolution history: the era of connected and autonomous vehicles. In this new era, vehicles will be empowered with processing, sensing, actuators and wireless communication capabilities, which will support a wide range of vehicular applications to improving safety, efficiency and enjoyableness of transportation. In this revolution, processing and exchange of multimedia and big data will be fundamental. Therefore, content distribution is one of the critical challenges in connected cars and intelligent vehicular networks. In this tutorial, we will discuss the recent advancements and research directions towards the development of solutions for content distribution in connected cars and vehicular networks. We will highlight the current stateoftheart and identify research opportunities that could interest researchers willing to contribute in different areas, such as vehiclesxe2x80x99 mobility characterization and modeling, modeling and performance evaluation of informationcentric networking in vehicular networks, broadcast storm avoidance of Interest and Data packets, content placement and cache policies, as well as networking protocols and architectures for serviceoriented informationcentric multimedia content distribution for vehicular networking and connected vehiclesxe2x80x99 applications 1xe2x80x9312.

Socialaware Mobile Road Side Unit for Content Distribution in Vehicular Social Networks Network operators are more than ever overwhelmed by increased capital investments and operational costs incurred due to the explosive mobile data traffic growth. An efficient strategy in managing operational expenditure within limits without sacrificing enduser satisfaction is to offload the traffic of content dissemination from the network backbone to local roadside units (RSUs). Allocating suitable subsets of contents to each RSU cache so as to maximize the hit ratio of requests made by vehicular entities is an optimization problem of paramount value. In this paper, we address the issue of content dissemination in a sociallyaware hybrid environment with mobile endusers, wherein an overlay network comprising of a social network over a cellular vehicular network is considered. In this setting, vehicles represent the mobile nodes that obtain requested contents either from base station or from local RSUs, if available. By employing a mobile RSU that accounts for the social characteristics of the underlying network, we introduce a novel approach for content distribution in an urban environment. Results from simulation experiments reveal an average improvement of 6% in network throughput for the proposed method as compared to conventional content dissemination counterparts.