Next-Hop Decision-Making in Mobility-Controlled Message Ferrying Networks
Tobias Simon, Andreas Mitschele‐Thiel · 2015
Message ferries support delay-tolerant networking in scenarios where nodes are too far from each other to communicate directly. We study scenarios where a data ferry moves between a fixed set of stationary nodes not connected otherwise. Thus, ferrying is assumed to be the only means of communication in the network. In order to minimize the average message delivery time, the ferry dynamically decides on the next node to visit. For this, we assume local knowledge only, i.e. the decision made by the ferry is solely based on locally derived information.