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At vehicular speeds, the contact time during which a mobile node is in range of a fixed road side unit (RSU) is short. While this is not an issue if the RSU only needs to deliver textual information such as traffic updates, short contact times become problematic when transmitting a large amount of information. For instance, an RSU may need to deliver high volumes of local navigation data for an augmented reality application, or video material regarding tourist information of a nearby town. Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) communication is highly promising for such scenarios since it provides order-of-magnitude larger throughput than the existing technologies operating at lower frequencies. However, the contact time in mm-Wave vehicular scenarios becomes even shorter due to the directional nature of the communication. This raises a fundamental question: can the high throughput of mm-Wave make up for the reduction in …