Message Ferrying for Constrained Scenarios
R. Viswanathan, Jing Li, Mooi Choo Chuah · 2005
Message ferrying (MF) (Wenrui Zhao and Ammar, M.H., Proc. IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distrib. Computing Syst., 2003), a viable solution for routing in highly partitioned ad-hoc networks, exploits message ferries to transfer packets between disconnected nodes. The paper studies the delivery quality of service (QoS) for certain urgent messages in the constrained and the relaxed constrained MF systems. Efficient algorithms to compute near-optimal ferry routes are proposed, delay analysis is conducted and the results are compared to the non-constrained scenario.