Rapid selection and dissemination of urgent messages over delay-tolerant networks (DTNs)

• Today many new applications are emerging that take advantage of wireless communication in handheld and embedded devices. Some of these emerging applications, such as information sharing in vehicular systems, have strong requirements for timely message dissemination, even if the network is not always 100% connected. In this chapter we discuss message differentiation mechanisms that can be used in intermittently connected networks to improve delivery and latency properties when messages have a limited time to live in the network. We present a simulation-based study on a large-scale vehicular scenario comparing different prioritisation mechanisms for a partition-tolerant manycast protocol. We show that negative effects of overloads can be significantly reduced by using information within the message about how far it has spread and how much time is remaining.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Delay-tolerant networks

Vehicular

Message differentiation

Message delay

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