A Data Transmission Scheme Based on Time-Evolving Meeting Probability for Opportunistic Social Network

With its widespread application prospects, opportunistic social network attracts more and more attention. Efficient data transmission strategy is one of the most important issues to ensure its applications. As is well known, most of nodes in opportunistic social network are human-carried devices, so...

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Main Authors: Fu Xiao, Guoxia Sun, Jia Xu, Lingyun Jiang, Ruchuan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/123428
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Summary:With its widespread application prospects, opportunistic social network attracts more and more attention. Efficient data transmission strategy is one of the most important issues to ensure its applications. As is well known, most of nodes in opportunistic social network are human-carried devices, so encounters between nodes are predictable when considering the law of human activities. To the best of our knowledge, existing data transmission solutions are less accurate in the prediction of node encounters due to their lack of consideration of the dynamism of users' behavior. To address this problem, a novel data transmission solution, based on time-evolving meeting probability for opportunistic social network, called TEMP is introduced, and corresponding copy management strategy is given to reduce the message redundancy. Simulation results based on real human traces show that TEMP achieves a good compromise in terms of delivery probability and overhead ratio.
ISSN:1550-1477