Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Using predictive prefetching to improve World Wide Web latency
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
MobiCom '97 Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Zippering: managing intermittent connectivity in DIANA
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on personal communications services
Sending messages to mobile users in disconnected ad-hoc wireless networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Handling Client Mobility and Intermittent Connectivity in Mobile Web Accesses
MDM '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Middleware for Supporting Disconnections and Multi-Network Access in Mobile Environments
PERCOMW '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Routing in a delay tolerant network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Inter-Regional Messenger Scheduling in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Measurements of In-Motion 802.11 Networking
WMCSA '06 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking
Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking
Delay tolerant mobile networks (DTMNs): controlled flooding in sparse mobile networks
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
Research challenges towards the Future Internet
Computer Communications
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As mobile and wireless technologies become more pervasive in our society, people begin to depend on network connectivity, regardless of their location. Their mobility, however, implies a dynamic topology where routes to a destination cannot always be guaranteed. The intermittent connectivity that results from this lack of end-to-end connection is a dominant problem that leads to user frustration. Existing research to provide the mobile user with a facade of constant connectivity generally presents mechanisms to handle disconnections when they occur. In contrast, the system we propose in this paper provides ways to handle disconnections before they occur. We present a Data Bundling System for Intermittent Connections (DBS-IC) comprised of a Stationary Agent (SA) and a Mobile Agent (MA). The SA pro-actively gathers data the user has previously specified, and opportunistically sends this data to the MA. The SA groups the user-requested data into one or more data bundles, which are then incrementally delivered to the MA during short periods of connectivity. We fully implement DBS-IC and evaluate its performance via live tests under varying network conditions. Results show that our system decreases data retrieval time by a factor of two in the average case and by a factor of 20 in the best case.