Profile-cast
Wei-jen Hsu, Debojyoti Dutta, Ahmed Helmy · ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review · 2008
In this paper we propose a new communication paradigm called profile-casting where destination nodes are identified by their (inferred) properties, not by node IDs. As an example case study, we use the mobility profile to show a design of profile-casting protocol based on the similarity in user mobility processes. The similarity-based protocol has good potential in both overhead reduction and delivery ratio improvement compared with simple message delivery protocols, such as flooding or random transmission. It is also flexible to operate at various points of the overhead-performance tradeoff.