%0 Journal Article
%@ 1089-7798
%A Cello, Marco
%A Gnecco, Giorgio
%A Marchese, Mario
%A Sanguineti, Marcello
%D 2012
%F eprints:1725
%I IEEE
%J IEEE Communications Letters
%K Intermittently connected networks, Markov chains, ad-hoc networks        congestion control        epidemic routing
%N 6
%P 862-865
%T A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1725/
%V 16
%X 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.