HiBOp: a History Based Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks

@inproceedings{citeulike:2793688, abstract = {In opportunistic networks the existence of a simultaneous path between a sender and a receiver is not assumed. This model (which fits well to pervasive networking environments) completely breaks the main assumptions on which MANET routing protocols are built. Routing in opportunistic networks is usually based on some form of controlled flooding. But often this results in very high resource consumption and network congestion. In this paper we advocate context-based routing for opportunistic networks. We provide a general framework for managing and using context for taking forwarding decisions. We propose a context-based protocol (HiBOp), and compare it with popular solutions, i.e., Epidemic Routing and PROPHET. Results show that HiBOp is able to drastically reduce resource consumption. At the same time, it significantly reduces the message loss rate, and preserves the performance in terms of message delay.}, author = {Boldrini, Chiara and Conti, Marco and Jacopini, Jacopo and Passarella, Andrea }, booktitle = {World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a}, citeulike-article-id = {2793688}, doi = {10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351716}, journal = {World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a}, keywords = {dtn, network, routing, social}, pages = {1--12}, posted-at = {2008-05-16 10:19:34}, priority = {0}, title = {HiBOp: a History Based Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351716}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2793688 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2793688 TI - HiBOp: a History Based Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks T2 - World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a JF - World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a SP - 1 EP - 12 N2 - In opportunistic networks the existence of a simultaneous path between a sender and a receiver is not assumed. This model (which fits well to pervasive networking environments) completely breaks the main assumptions on which MANET routing protocols are built. Routing in opportunistic networks is usually based on some form of controlled flooding. But often this results in very high resource consumption and network congestion. In this paper we advocate context-based routing for opportunistic networks. We provide a general framework for managing and using context for taking forwarding decisions. We propose a context-based protocol (HiBOp), and compare it with popular solutions, i.e., Epidemic Routing and PROPHET. Results show that HiBOp is able to drastically reduce resource consumption. At the same time, it significantly reduces the message loss rate, and preserves the performance in terms of message delay. KW - dtn KW - network KW - routing KW - social AU - Boldrini, Chiara AU - Conti, Marco AU - Jacopini, Jacopo AU - Passarella, Andrea PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351716 ER -