Improving Neighbor Discovery with Slot Index Synchronization

Neighbor discovery is essential for docking applications, where mobile nodes communicate with static nodes situated at various rendezvous points. In existing neighbor discovery protocols, the probabilistic protocols perform well in the average-case but have a periodic, unpredictable and unbounded discovery latency. While the deterministic protocols can provide a bounded worst-case discovery latency, they achieve this by sacrificing the average-case performance. In this paper, we propose a new synchronization technique, called Mobility-Assisted Slot index Synchronization (MASS). MASS improves the average-case performance of deterministic neighbor discovery protocols via slot index synchronization, without incurring additional energy consumption. We evaluate MASS through both theoretical analysis and simulations of the real traces from a tourist tracking system deployed at Mogao Grottoes, a famous cultural heritage site in China. We show that MASS can reduce the average discovery latency of state-of-the-art deterministic neighbor discovery protocols by up to 2 orders of magnitude.

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