Content-based communication in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks

Applications dedicated to information sharing, news distribution, service advertisement and discovery all need a communication model where information flows towards any interested receiver, rather than towards specifically set destinations. Content-based communication is a style of communication that perfectly fits the needs of such applications. In this paper we address the problem of supporting content-based communication in partially or intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The protocol we designed leverages on the concepts of opportunistic networking and delay-tolerant networking in order to account for the absence of end-to-end connectivity in disconnected MANETs. Simulation results are presented, showing the efficiency of this protocol in a mobile ad hoc network composed of devices carried by pedestrians evolving in a campus environment.

[1]  Yu-Chee Tseng,et al.  The Broadcast Storm Problem in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network , 1999, Wirel. Networks.

[2]  Kevin C. Almeroth,et al.  Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs): Controlled Flooding in Sparse Mobile Networks , 2005, NETWORKING.

[3]  Vinny Cahill,et al.  STEAM: event-based middleware for wireless ad hoc networks , 2002, Proceedings 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.

[4]  Marco Conti,et al.  Opportunistic networking: data forwarding in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks , 2006, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[5]  Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer,et al.  A review of current routing protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks , 1999, IEEE Wirel. Commun..

[6]  J. Kaiser,et al.  Survey of mobile ad hoc network routing protocols , 2005 .

[7]  Amin Vahdat,et al.  Epidemic Routing for Partially-Connected Ad Hoc Networks , 2009 .

[8]  Roberto Beraldi,et al.  Content-based routing in highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks , 2005, Int. J. Pervasive Comput. Commun..

[9]  Anis Laouiti,et al.  Multipoint relaying for flooding broadcast messages in mobile wireless networks , 2002, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

[10]  Cecilia Mascolo,et al.  EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks , 2005, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

[11]  Hans-Arno Jacobsen,et al.  Content-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks , 2005, The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services.

[12]  David Powell,et al.  A Survey of Dependability Issues in Mobile Wireless Networks , 2003 .

[13]  Paolo Costa,et al.  Semi-Probabilistic Content-Based Publish-Subscribe , 2005, 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05).

[14]  Karl Aberer,et al.  Autonomous Gossiping: A Self-Organizing Epidemic Algorithm for Selective Information Dissemination in Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks , 2004, ICSNW.

[15]  Zhensheng Zhang,et al.  Routing in intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks and delay tolerant networks: overview and challenges , 2006, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.