relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3134/
title: Average Packet Delivery Delay in Intermittently-Connected Networks
creator: Cello, Marco
creator: Gnecco, Giorgio
creator: Marchese, Mario
creator: Sanguineti, Marcello
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) is addressed. It is a communication paradigm that enables  the communication over Intermittently-Connected Networks (ICNs), which are characterized by unpredictable  or scheduled contacts among nodes, high latency, and high bit error rates. DTN exploits storeand-forward  techniques in order to cope with intermittent link issues. A model is proposed, to compute the  average packet delivery delay in ICNs. We assume that the inter-meeting time as well as the contact time  between any two nodes is an exponentially-distributed random-variable. As a consequence, the behavior of  the communication between each pair of nodes can be modeled by a two-state Continuous-Time Markov  Chain (CTMC). It is assumed that the packet generation process at the source node follows a Poisson process,  so in the analysis one can exploit the Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages (PASTA) property. Both  the IP-like paradigm used by traditional TCP/IP protocols and DTN are considered. Numerical results and  simulations are presented.
date: 2014
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Cello, Marco and Gnecco, Giorgio and Marchese, Mario and Sanguineti, Marcello  Average Packet Delivery Delay in Intermittently-Connected Networks.  In: 44th Conference of Italian Operational Research Society (AIRO 2014), September 2-5, 2014, Como, Italy p. 102.        (2014)  
relation: http://www.cnr.it/istituti/Allegato_97592.pdf?LO=01000000d9c8b7a6090000000c000000cbb10000646f9c53000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&type=application/pdf