%0 Journal Article
%@ 1089-7798
%A Cello, Marco
%A Gnecco, Giorgio
%A Marchese, Mario
%A Sanguineti, Marcello
%D 2014
%F eprints:2616
%I IEEE
%J IEEE Communications Letters
%K IP networks; Intermittently-connected networks; Markov chains; store-and-forward mechanism
%N 3
%P 519-522
%T Evaluation of the Average Packet Delivery Delay in Highly-Disrupted Networks: The DTN and IP-like Protocol Cases
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2616/
%V 18
%X 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.