Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
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
Spray and wait: an efficient routing scheme for intermittently connected mobile networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Integrating DTN and MANET routing
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Challenged networks
Understanding the wireless and mobile network space: a routing-centered classification
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Social network analysis for routing in disconnected delay-tolerant MANETs
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Media sharing based on colocation prediction in urban transport
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The ONE simulator for DTN protocol evaluation
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Towards distributed network classification for mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Wireless Internet
An empirical analysis of Wi-Fi activity in three urban scenarios
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Self-stabilization with r-operators revisited
SSS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Self-Stabilizing Systems
A survey of clustering schemes for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
GSTAR: generalized storage-aware routing for mobilityfirst in the future mobile internet
MobiArch '11 Proceedings of the sixth international workshop on MobiArch
Understanding stateful vs stateless communication strategies for ad hoc networks
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A survey of routing protocols and simulations in delay-tolerant networks
WASA'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Wireless algorithms, systems, and applications
Fair content dissemination in participatory DTNs
Ad Hoc Networks
A secure content network in space
Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Challenged networks
An hierarchical routing protocol for opportunistic emergency networks
Proceedings of the 7th Latin American Networking Conference
Ego network models for Future Internet social networking environments
Computer Communications
Leader Based Group Routing in Disconnected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Group Mobility
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Contact quality based forwarding strategy for delay tolerant network
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Network (DTN) protocols typically address sparse intermittently connected networks whereas Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) protocols address the fairly stable and fully connected ones. But many intermediate situations may occur on mobility dynamics or radio link instability. In such cases, where the network frequently splits into evolving connected groups, none of the conventional routing paradigms (DTN or MANET) are fully satisfactory. In this paper we propose HYMAD, a Hybrid DTN-MANET routing protocol which uses DTN between disjoint groups of nodes while using MANET routing within these groups. HYMAD is fully decentralized and only makes use of topological information exchanges between the nodes. The strength of HYMAD lies in its ability to adapt to the changing connectivity patterns of the network. We evaluate the scheme in simulation by replaying synthetic and real life mobility traces which exhibit a broad range of connectivity dynamics. The results show that HYMAD introduces limited overhead and outperforms the multi-copy Spray-and-Wait DTN routing protocol it extends, both in terms of delivery ratio and delay. This hybrid DTN-MANET approach offers a promising venue for the delivery of elastic data in mobile ad-hoc networks as it retains the resilience of a pure DTN protocol while significantly improving performance.