relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1725/ title: A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs creator: Cello, Marco creator: Gnecco, Giorgio creator: Marchese, Mario creator: Sanguineti, Marcello subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: 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. publisher: IEEE date: 2012 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Cello, Marco and Gnecco, Giorgio and Marchese, Mario and Sanguineti, Marcello A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs. IEEE Communications Letters, 16 (6). pp. 862-865. ISSN 1089-7798 (2012) relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6189815&isnumber=6214955 relation: 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.042312.120369