Message fragmentation in opportunistic DTNs Export

@inproceedings{pitkanen:fragmentation, abstract = {Delay-tolerant networking is used for communication in challenged environments such as MANETs, in which links are unstable and end-to-end paths between communicating nodes may not exist. Messages may be significantly larger than packets in IP networks. Large messages lead to longer transfer times rendering it more likely that a link breaks in the middle of a message transfer. This motivates investigating how to support partial message transfers through fragmentation. In this paper, we formulate fragmentation independent of routing algorithms, introduce several fragmentation strategies, and evaluate these by simulations to derive recommendations for using fragmentation in DTNs.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Pitkanen, Mikko and Keranen, Ari and Ott, Jorg}, booktitle = {2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM)}, citeulike-article-id = {5687436}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594892}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594892}, doi = {10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594892}, isbn = {978-1-4244-2099-5}, journal = {A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, International Symposium on}, keywords = {crawdad, crawdad\_mention, dtn, fragmentation, opportunistic-networks}, location = {Newport Beach, CA, USA}, month = {June}, pages = {1--7}, posted-at = {2009-08-31 10:24:38}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Message fragmentation in opportunistic {DTNs}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594892}, volume = {0}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - pitkanen:fragmentation L3 - citeulike-article-id:5687436 N2 - Delay-tolerant networking is used for communication in challenged environments such as MANETs, in which links are unstable and end-to-end paths between communicating nodes may not exist. Messages may be significantly larger than packets in IP networks. Large messages lead to longer transfer times rendering it more likely that a link breaks in the middle of a message transfer. This motivates investigating how to support partial message transfers through fragmentation. In this paper, we formulate fragmentation independent of routing algorithms, introduce several fragmentation strategies, and evaluate these by simulations to derive recommendations for using fragmentation in DTNs. CY - Newport Beach, CA, USA JF - A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, International Symposium on SN - 978-1-4244-2099-5 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 7 TI - Message fragmentation in opportunistic {DTNs} PB - IEEE VL - 0 T2 - 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM) SP - 1 KW - crawdad KW - crawdad_mention KW - dtn KW - fragmentation KW - opportunistic-networks AU - Pitkanen, Mikko AU - Keranen, Ari AU - Ott, Jorg PY - 2008/June// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594892 ER -