Impact of vehicle movement models on VDTN routing strategies for rural connectivity

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-111

  Soares, Vasco N G J ^a,b   Farahmand, Farid ^c   Rodrigues, Joel José P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE CASTELO BRANCO   (Portugal)

^c SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay disruption tolerant networks; Movement models; Node density; Performance assessment; Rural connectivity; VDTNs; Vehicular delay tolerant networks

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SERVICES; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; VEHICLES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MOVEMENT MODEL; NODE DENSITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RURAL CONNECTIVITY; VDTNS; VEHICULAR DELAY-TOLERANT NETWORKS;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 77958490558     PISSN: 17442869     EISSN: 17442850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2009.030842     Document Type: Article

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