Research Article
Improving the Performance of Challenged Networks with Controlled Mobility
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_17, author={Laurent Reynaud and Isabelle Gu\^{e}rin-Lassous}, title={Improving the Performance of Challenged Networks with Controlled Mobility}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 8th International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2016, Ottawa, Canada, September 26-27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2017}, month={4}, keywords={Controlled mobility Virtual forces MANET Challenged networks DTN Unmanned aerial vehicles Disaster communications}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_17} }- Laurent Reynaud
Isabelle Guérin-Lassous
Year: 2017
Improving the Performance of Challenged Networks with Controlled Mobility
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_17
Abstract
In this work, we investigate the application of an adapted controlled mobility strategy on self-propelling nodes, which could efficiently provide network resource to users scattered on a designated area. We design a virtual force-based controlled mobility scheme, named VFPc, and evaluate its ability to be jointly used with a dual packet-forwarding and epidemic routing protocol. In particular, we study the possibility for end-users to achieve synchronous communications at given times of the considered scenarios. On this basis, we study the delay distribution for such user traffic and show the advantages of VFPc compared to other packet-forwarding and packet-replication schemes, and highlight that VFPc-enabled applications could take benefit of both schemes to yield a better user experience, despite challenging network conditions.