Title
Impact of Social Features on the Performance of Pocket Switched Network
Abstract
The forwarding activities of Pocket Switched Network (PSN) under social scene has attracted increasing attention, which are deeply affected by the social features of PSN nodes, especially the social network structure and characteristics of selfishness among nodes that jointly construct their behavior model under an opportunistic forwarding environment. Through both analysis and simulation, we investigate how social network structure and node selfishness influence data forwarding activities of PSN nodes based on our proposed contact-and-cooperative model. Simulation results obtained by PROPHET algorithm show that PSN forwarding performance, including delay time and packet delivery ratio, are improved by the introduction of social network structure. Further, the differentiation of node selfishness according to nodes' relationships on social structure level also displays intrinsic benefit in network performance in the presence of the node selfish behavior that is inevitable in real world. The results also show that hub nodes in the network, which undertake heavy relay mission, may play a more important role in forwarding activities under our model with social selfishness compared with unconditionally cooperative cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/VTCSpring.2014.7022940
VTC Spring
Keywords
Field
DocType
packet switching,heavy relay mission,contact-and-cooperative model,social selfishness,packet delivery ratio,prophet algorithm,psn nodes,social features,social scene,network performance,cooperative communication,delay time,forwarding activities,hub nodes,behavior model,node selfish behavior,pocket switched network,social network structure,telecommunication network routing,social networking (online),opportunistic forwarding environment,simulation,data models,routing
Data modeling,Social network,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Selfishness,Relay,Packet forwarding,Network performance
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-2252
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuan Liu110011.86
Fei Yang25915.75
Sihai Zhang36319.50
Wuyang Zhou422647.51