@article{eprints1725,
            year = {2012},
           title = {A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs},
           pages = {862--865},
          number = {6},
          volume = {16},
          author = {Marco Cello and Giorgio Gnecco and Mario Marchese and Marcello Sanguineti},
       publisher = {IEEE},
         journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
        keywords = {Intermittently connected networks, Markov chains, ad-hoc networks

    congestion control

    epidemic routing},
        abstract = {In this letter, an analytical framework to model nodes in Intermittently Connected Networks (ICNs) is proposed. A relationship is derived in the z-domain between the discrete probability densities of their buffer state occupancies and the sizes of the arriving bulks. Under a fixed epidemic-routing-based forwarding strategy, expressions are obtained for the average buffer occupancy and its standard deviation with immediate protocol advantages.},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1725/}
}