Title :
Epidemic broadcasting in DTNs using directional antenna
Author :
Maiti, Rajib Ranjan ; Ganguly, Niloy ; Gupta, Arobinda
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
Abstract :
In this paper, we investigate the effect of using directional antennas on the performance of classical SIRS epidemic dynamics for broadcasting in DTNs using a realistic mobility model (Self-similar Least Action Walk). It is shown that the use of even a small number of agents with directional antenna can give significantly better broadcasting performance in practice than using only omnidirectional antennas in most cases. We also investigate the effect of different antenna and mobility parameters on the performance.
Keywords :
delay tolerant networks; directive antennas; mobile radio; omnidirectional antennas; radio broadcasting; DTN; SIRS epidemic dynamics; directional antenna; epidemic broadcasting; omnidirectional antennas; realistic mobility model; Broadcasting; Computer science; Delay; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Mobile communication;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0296-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0297-5
DOI :
10.1109/COMSNETS.2012.6151357
