@article{eprints2616,
           pages = {519--522},
       publisher = {IEEE},
           month = {March},
          number = {3},
          volume = {18},
           title = {Evaluation of the Average Packet Delivery Delay in Highly-Disrupted Networks: The DTN and IP-like Protocol Cases},
            year = {2014},
          author = {Marco Cello and Giorgio Gnecco and Mario Marchese and Marcello Sanguineti},
         journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
        abstract = {Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) represents an innovative communication paradigm that enables the communication over Intermittently-Connected Networks (ICNs). ICNs are characterized by unpredictable or scheduled contacts among nodes, high latency, and high bit error rates. DTNs, unlike TCP/IP protocols, make use of store-and-forward techniques in order to cope with intermittent link issues. In this letter, a simple model is proposed to compute the average packet delivery delay in ICNs. Both the IP-like paradigm used by traditional TCP/IP protocols and DTN are considered. The results provide theoretical insights into the applications of these two approaches to ICNs. Numerical results and simulations are presented, too.},
        keywords = {IP networks; Intermittently-connected networks; Markov chains; store-and-forward mechanism},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2616/}
}