Heuristic Information Retrieval Using Variable Identifiers in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

We observe through simulations that an information sharing scheme using variable identifiers in mobile ad-hoc networks, which we previously proposed, enables us to heuristically find desired information by having identifiers varied. In the information sharing, people create identifiers that represent their interest, and information published by the people are probabilistically propagated using distances between identifiers of the people. The identifiers of the people dynamically change depending on people surrounding each person. Under a situation that an identifier is variable, we set how many times people obtained desired information to be an observation item. Also, we consider a process that people heuristically find desired information into a simulation model and set how many times people obtain such information to be an observation item. In simulations, we show examples of observation for these items.