Title
Practical opportunistic content dissemination performance in dense network segments.
Abstract
Many of the existing opportunistic networking systems have been designed assuming a small number links per node and have trouble scaling to large numbers of potential concurrent communication partners. In the real world we often find wireless local area networks with large numbers of connected users – in particular in open Wi-Fi networks provided by cities, airports, conferences and other venues. In this paper we build a 50 client opportunistic network in a single Wi-Fi access point and use it to uncover scaling problems and to suggest mechanisms to improve the performance of single segment dissemination. Further, we present an algorithm for breaking down a single dense segment dissemination problem into multiple smaller but identical problems by exploiting resource (e.g., Wi-Fi channel) diversity, and validate our approach via simulations and testbed experiments. The ability to scale to high density network segments creates new, realistic use cases for opportunistic networking applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.comcom.2018.03.013
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dense wireless networks,Opportunistic networking,Performance analysis,Wireless testbed
Small number,Use case,Wireless,Computer science,Communication channel,Computer network,High density,Testbed,Local area network,Scaling
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
123
0140-3664
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teemu Kärkkäinen1104142.66
Mika Välimaa200.34
Shourov Kumar Roy300.34
Esa Hyytiä442938.38
Jörg Ott56012.94