TY  - JOUR
ID  - eprints1725
EP  - 865
AV  - none
TI  - A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs
KW  - Intermittently connected networks
KW  -  Markov chains
KW  -  ad-hoc networks

    congestion control

    epidemic routing
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6189815&isnumber=6214955
SN  - 1089-7798
N2  - 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.
VL  - 16
Y1  - 2012///
IS  - 6
JF  - IEEE Communications Letters
A1  - Cello, Marco
A1  - Gnecco, Giorgio
A1  - Marchese, Mario
A1  - Sanguineti, Marcello
PB  - IEEE
SP  - 862
ER  -