The Internet of vehicles (IoV) is a newly emerged wave that converges Internet of things (IoT)
into vehicular networks to benefit from ubiquitous Internet connectivity. Despite various
research efforts, vehicular networks are still striving to achieve higher data rate, seamless
connectivity, scalability, security, and improved quality of service, which are the key enablers
for IoV. It becomes even more critical to investigate novel design architectures to accomplish
efficient and reliable data forwarding when it comes to handling the emergency …