Relieving the wireless infrastructure: When opportunistic networks meet guaranteed delays

J Whitbeck, M Amorim, Y Lopez… - … Symposium on a …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Major wireless operators are nowadays facing network capacity issues in striving to meet the
growing demands of mobile users. At the same time, 3G-enabled devices increasingly …

Push-and-track: Saving infrastructure bandwidth through opportunistic forwarding

J Whitbeck, Y Lopez, J Leguay, V Conan… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2012 - Elsevier
Major wireless operators are nowadays facing network capacity issues in striving to meet the
growing demands of mobile users. At the same time, 3G-enabled devices increasingly …

Exploiting temporal dependency for opportunistic forwarding in urban vehicular networks

H Zhu, S Chang, M Li, K Naik… - 2011 Proceedings IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inter-contact times (ICTs) between moving vehicles are one of the key metrics in vehicular
networks, and they are also central to forwarding algorithms and the end-to-end delay …

Haggle: a data-centric network architecture for mobile devices

E Nordström, P Gunningberg, C Rohner - Proceedings of the 2009 …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Delay-tolerant and opportunistic networks relax the traditional assumption of end-to-end
connectivity. Such networks are therefore suitable for content dissemination in sparsely …

Cedo: Content-centric dissemination algorithm for delay-tolerant networks

F Neves dos Santos, B Ertl, C Barakat… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Emerging challenged networks require new protocols and strategies to cope with a high
degree of mobility, high delays and unknown, possibly non-existing routes within the …

A solution for mobile DTN in a real urban scenario

A Bujari, CE Palazzi, D Maggiorini… - 2012 IEEE wireless …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing number of mobile devices equipped with a wireless interface and the end-user
trend to shift toward wireless technology is opening new possibilities for networking. In …

Opportunistic content-based dissemination in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks

F Guidec, Y Mahéo - International Conference on Mobile …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Content-based networking fosters a new kind of communication in which information flows
towards interested hosts rather than towards specifically set destinations. Supporting this …

Context and resource awareness in opportunistic network data dissemination

C Boldrini, M Conti, A Passarella - … International Symposium on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Opportunistic networks are challenging mobile ad hoc networks characterised by frequent
disconnections and partitioning. In this paper we focus on data dissemination services, ie …

ZOOM: Scaling the mobility for fast opportunistic forwarding in vehicular networks

H Zhu, M Dong, S Chang, Y Zhu, M Li… - 2013 Proceedings …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular networks consist of highly mobile vehicles communications, where connectivity is
intermittent. Due to the distributed and highly dynamic nature of vehicular network, to …

Characterization of a large-scale delay tolerant network

S Ahmed, SK Salil - IEEE Local Computer Network Conference, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a thorough characterization of the spatio-temporal communication
graph of a large-scale real-world vehicle-based Delay Tolerant Network (DTN). Unlike …