Title
Leveraging Bus Mobility to Enable Communications in Urban Areas
Abstract
This paper shows that the deployment of an opportunistic network on any public transportation system leads to obtain a scalable and efficient urban communication platform. We use the term Bus Switched Networks (BSNs) to indicate this urban backbone that complements the services of 3G networks and enables to meet the application level requirements for a large class of applications by ensuring high delivery ratio and acceptable delays under different conditions of packet load. We sustain these arguments by providing three contributions. The first contribution is a novel and lightweight probabilistic routing protocol for BSN which we prove to be highly effective in satisfying the loose QoS required by urban-wide delay-tolerant information services. The second contribution is the proposal of URBeS, an analysis platform that, given a specific city served by public transportation, produces real bus mobility traces and traffic analysis for any given routing protocol. The last contribution is an extensive benchmark analysis on three real cities which have been selected to explore geo and structural diversity.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
CoRR
satisfiability,public transport,routing protocol
Field
DocType
Volume
Information system,Traffic analysis,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Quality of service,Public transport,Probabilistic logic,Routing protocol,Distributed computing,Scalability
Journal
abs/1107.4526
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.46
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sabrina Gaito120929.64
Dario Maggiorini229042.50
Gian Paolo Rossi339078.09