Security-Enhanced Content Caching for the 5G-Based Cognitive Internet of Vehicles

With the explosive growth of multimedia contents in vehicular networks and the development of 5G technology come great challenges to the Internet of Vehicles system. By utilizing the storage capability of roadside units, popular contents can be cached in advance during nonpeak periods, which can bring better quality of experience to users. However, it is difficult for the existing content caching schemes in traditional vehicular networks to achieve global control when designing content caching mechanisms. Moreover, some content caching schemes also bring security concerns. Thus, in this article, we first discuss the content caching problem in the 5G-based cognitive Internet of Vehicles. Then we design security enhancement methods with the cognitive engine. Finally, we use a special case to study how to design a secure and delay-sensitive content caching scheme in cognitive vehicular networks. Extensive experiments show that the proposed algorithm outperforms traditional content caching methods.