A controllable multi‐replica routing approach for opportunistic networks
A controllable multi‐replica routing approach for opportunistic networks
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10.1002/tee.22437
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2017-03
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通讯作者:
Ruonan Zhao;Xiaoming Wang;Yaguang Lin;Yunhui Yang;Tiantian Hui;Lichen Zhang
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作者:
Ruonan Zhao;Xiaoming Wang;Yaguang Lin;Yunhui Yang;Tiantian Hui;Lichen Zhang
Opportunistic networks take full advantage of opportunistic encounters among nodes to transfer packets. According to the characteristics of the limited energy of nodes and the frequent link variation in opportunistic networks, we introduce a novel routing metric that comprehensively takes into consideration the energy consumption of nodes, the probability of relay nodes meeting their destination, the time‐to‐live of the packet, and the approximate number of packet copies. Based on this metric, we propose a controllable multi‐replica routing approach in which a single‐branch diffusion strategy is applied to achieve the goal of dynamically controlling the number of replicas of packets. Our simulation results show that the proposed approach can avoid excessive load on individual nodes, guarantee the energy fairness among nodes, prolong the network lifetime, and effectively improve the delivery ratio of packets. © 2017 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.