On Network Coding in Intermittently Connected Networks
Ahmed B. Altamimi, Thomas Aaron Gulliver · 2014
An intermittently connected network (ICN) is a mobile network that uses cooperation between nodes to facilitate communication. This cooperation consists of nodes carrying messages from other nodes in order to deliver it to the destination. An ICN does not require an infrastructure, and it does not store routing information, so it is an attractive networking environment. However, the challenge is how to achieve a high probability of message delivery with no routing information or network infrastructure. In this paper, network coding is employed to improve the delivery probability in an ICN. The benefit of using network coding over message replication is determined analytically and verified by simulation.