Forwarding Strategies for Future Mobile Smart City Networks
Rodrigo Almeida, Rúben Oliveira, Miguel Luís, Carlos R. Senna, Susana Sargento · 2018
A common concern among Smart Cities is the focus on sensing procedures to provide city-wide information to city managers and citizens. To meet the growing demands of Smart Cities, the network must provide the ability to handle a large number of mobile sensors/devices, with high heterogeneity and unpredictable mobility, by collecting and delivering the sensed in- formation for future treatment. With these challenges in mind, we are proposing self-organizing opportunistic approaches that allow vehicles to disseminate information to each other even while on the move, over a multi-technology opportunistic communication platform for data gathering and data exchange with both static and moving elements. To demonstrate their characteristics, we perform real experiments to evaluate four distinguished routing strategies, Epidemic, Direct Contact, Controlled Replication with Neighborhood Classification - Contacts based and Controlled Replication with Neighborhood Classification - Mobility based over an opportunistic vehicular network.