Valeria (Inria Lille – Nord Europe, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France) Loscri & Athanasios V. (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden) Vasilakos 
Vehicular Social Networks [EPUB ebook] 

The book provides a comprehensive guide to vehicular social networks. The book focuses on a new class of mobile ad hoc networks that exploits social aspects applied to vehicular environments. Selected topics are related to social networking techniques, social-based routing techniques applied to vehicular networks, data dissemination in VSNs, architectures for VSNs, and novel trends and challenges in VSNs. It provides significant technical and practical insights in different aspects from a basic background on social networking, the inter-related technologies and applications to vehicular ad-hoc networks, the technical challenges, implementation and future trends.