Patent ID: 8842659
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A routing method for routing a message transmitted from a source node s to a destination node d in a network comprising n nodes that are intermittently connected to each other and that act as relays for each other, the method comprising the following steps: for each node, measuring average inter-contact times with other nodes and providing the average inter-contact times to other nodes in the network; for each node, receiving and storing average inter-contact time information from other nodes of the network; generating an n×n matrix <λ generating an n×n matrix <t setting k=1, wherein k indicates a number of relays used in a routing of a message from the source node s to the destination node d, and wherein k setting an n×n matrix M computing an opportunistically defined routing method comprising the following steps: using V