A representative and accurate characterization of inter-contact times in mobile opportunistic networks
Enrique Hernández‐Orallo, Juan‐Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate, Pietro Manzoni · 2013
A representative characterisation of inter-contact times between nodes is essential for the performance evaluation of mobile networks. The most common characterization of inter-contact times is based on the study of the aggregate distribution of contacts between individual pairs of nodes. The problem with this aggregate distribution is that it is not always representative of the individual pair distributions, especially in the short term and when the number of nodes in the network is high. Thus, deriving results from this characterisation, can lead to inaccurate performance evaluations results.