Predictability of Human Mobility and Its Impact on Forwarding

Pan Hui; Jon Crowcroft

ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Predictability of Human Mobility and Its Impact on Forwarding

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    author={Pan Hui and Jon Crowcroft},
    title={Predictability of Human Mobility and Its Impact on Forwarding},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2008-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-FCN},
    year={2008},
    month={11},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685085}
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Pan Hui
Jon Crowcroft
Year: 2008
Predictability of Human Mobility and Its Impact on Forwarding
CHINACOM2008-FCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685085

Pan Hui¹^,*, Jon Crowcroft¹^,*

1: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD United Kingdom

*Contact email: pan.hui@cl.cam.ac.uk, jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk

Abstract

Pocket Switched Networks (PSNs), a kind of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), focus on human-to-human communication. In this kind of networks, human mobility determines data delivery opportunity. In this paper, we show that human mobility is well predictable on a day-to-day basis and can much improve forwarding efficiency over oblivious schemes in terms of delivery ratio and delivery cost.

Published: 2008-11-21
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685085