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Device mobility is an issue that affects both Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and opportunistic networks. While the former employs conventional routing techniques with some element of mobility management, opportunistic networking protocols often use mobility as a means of delivering messages in intermittently connected networks. If nodes are able to determine the future locations of other nodes with reasonable accuracy then they could plan ahead and take into account and even benefit from such mobility. In an ad hoc network, devices form a network amongst themselves and forward packets for each other without infrastructure. Ad hoc networks could be deployed in a disaster scenario to enable communications between responders and base camp to provide telemedicine services. However, most ad hoc routing protocols cannot meet the necessary standards for streaming multimedia because they …