mobility profile based routing within intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks (icman)
Routing in Intermittently Connected Networks (ICN) is a challenging problem due to the time varying nature of network connectivity. In this work, we focus on a special class of ICN formed by mobile ad hoc users called ICMAN. A recent study of wireless users' mobility traces revealed that users usually move between a small set of socially significant places called "hubs" to form so-called "sociological orbits" [6]. To exploit the knowledge about such mobility profiles, we propose a hub-level routing method, and two versions of user-level routing methods. We compare these approaches with Epidemic routing [21] to highlight the advantages of sociological orbit aware routing within ICMAN in terms of achieving a higher throughput and a lower overhead.
mobility profiles routing connection mobile ad hoc networks network intermittently connected networks timing class users users wireless traces place sociological orbits exploit knowledge method version throughput mobility aware routing protocols user ad-hoc performance