%N 6
%R 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.042312.120369
%J IEEE Communications Letters
%D 2012
%L eprints1725
%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.
%A Marco Cello
%A Giorgio Gnecco
%A Mario Marchese
%A Marcello Sanguineti
%K Intermittently connected networks, Markov chains, ad-hoc networks

    congestion control

    epidemic routing
%V 16
%I IEEE
%T A Model of Buffer Occupancy for ICNs
%P 862-865