Paper Info
Title
On the distribution of inter contact time for DTNs
Abstract
Inter contact time (ICT) between two mobile nodes is essential to forwarding algorithms and the end-to-end delay in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). However, studies regarding the distribution of ICT lack general applicability and the exponential parameter concerns with too many motion characteristics. Consequently, it is difficult to design the protocol and analyze the performance for DTNs. In this paper, we demonstrate ICT between two mobile nodes is exponentially distributed and the exponential parameter relates to their historical contact numbers and the cumulative ICTs. Moreover, through extensive experimental simulations, we find that our findings have a general applicability in both theoretical mobility models and real world mobility traces, thus providing guidelines on the design of new mobility models with exponential distribution, new message protocols and further performance analysis methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/LCN.2012.6423594
LCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
ict,protocols,historical contact number,inter contact time,mobility models,theoretical mobility model,forwarding algorithms,mobile node,parameter estimation,exponential parameter concern,mobility management (mobile radio),new mobility model,mobile nodes,motion characteristics,exponential parameter,delay tolerant networks,mobile radio,delay tolerant networks(dtns),end-to-end delay,real world mobility trace,inter contact time distribution,general applicability,dtn,mobility model,protocol,exponential distribution,inter contact time(ict)
Mobile radio,Exponential function,Computer science,ICTS,Contact time,Computer network,Mobility model,Exponential distribution,Information and Communications Technology,Estimation theory,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0742-1303
978-1-4673-1565-4
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuting Hu130.40
Haiquan Wang233049.55
Chunhe Xia36318.30
Weiguo Li440.76
Ying Yang530.40