Title
MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks
Abstract
Disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) differ from other types of networks in that capacity is created by the movements of network participants. This implies that understanding and influencing the participants' motions can have a significant impact on network performance. In this paper, we introduce the routing protocol MORA, which learns structure in the movement patterns of network participants and uses it to enable informed message passing. We also propose the introduction of autonomous agents as additional participants in DTNs. These agents adapt their movements in response to variations in network capacity and demand. We use multi-objective control methods from robotics to generate motions capable of optimizing multiple network performance metrics simultaneously. We present experimental evidence that these strategies, individually and in conjunction, result in significant performance improvements in DTNs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.adhoc.2007.05.002
Ad Hoc Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Autonomous agents,Disruption-tolerant networks,Multi-objective control,Routing
Conference
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
Ad Hoc Networks
131
PageRank 
References 
Authors
14.26
32
3
Search Limit
100131
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brendan Burns130427.70
Oliver Brock223325.03
Brian Levine34635355.81