ABSTRACT
Social networking over the Internet has become one of the most popular methods for social interactions among people thanks to the modern and ubiquitous communication technologies and devices. In social theory, homophyly is defined as the common social attributes, that is, the similarity, between two users, such as having the same favorites, working for the same organization, and having the same traveling destination. Considering the mobility patterns of vehicles on the roads and the traffic conditions, the formation of nonconnected clusters is inevitable in Vehicular social networks (VSNs). Differing from the cluster approach, the social group or community in VSNs is a subgraph of the whole network that still has a connection with the rest of the network. The main objective of this performance evaluation is to identify the impact of high dynamics of network topology changes in VSNs on the establishment of social connections among the communicating vehicles.
