Paper Info
Title
The Potential of Mobile Opportunistic Networks for Data Disseminations
Abstract
Mobile opportunistic networks make use of node mobility to provide occasional contact opportunities for mobile devices to deliver data. In this paper, we investigate the inherent properties of data disseminations in mobile opportunistic networks by answering the question regarding how far and how fast a packet can be disseminated in mobile opportunistic networks. This problem is overlooked by the recent research; but it is very important because it reveals the potential of mobile opportunistic networks to support emerging applications such as mobile commerce and emergency services that may involve time and location sensitive information dissemination. Our investigations are taken from the perspectives of small- and large-scale. From the perspective of small-scale, the probability distributions of the minimum time needed by the data to spread to a given region, namely T , are deduced for both the one-copy case and the multiple-copy case. From the perspective of the large-scale, by using the large deviation theory, the probability distributions of T are deduced for both the one-copy case and the multiple-copy case when the destination region is far enough from the data origin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TVT.2015.2401605
IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
brownian motion,mobile opportunistic networks,information dissemination
Journal
PP
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
99
0018-9545
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
15
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shengling Wang131237.32
Xia Wang26218.50
Jianhui Huang3344.64
Rongfang Bie454768.23
Zhi Tian511514.04
Feng Zhao617624.98