Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
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
Understanding the wireless and mobile network space: a routing-centered classification
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
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
Building a reference combinatorial model for MANETs
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Worst-case latency of broadcast in intermittently connected networks
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Transition phase of connectivity for wireless networks with growing process
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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The vast majority of research in wireless and mobile (WAM) networking falls in the MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) category, where end-to-end paths are the norm. More recently, research has focused on a different Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) paradigm, where end-to-end paths are the exception and intermediate nodes may store data while waiting for transfer opportunities towards the destination. Protocols developed for MANETs are generally not appropriate for DTNs and vice versa, since the connectivity assumptions are so different. We make the simple but powerful observation that MANETs and DTNs fit into a continuum that generalizes these two previously distinct categories. In this paper, building on this observation, we develop a WAM continuum framework that goes further to scope the entire space of Wireless and Mobile networks so that a network can be characterized by its position in this continuum. Certain network equivalence classes can be defined over subsets of this WAM continuum. We instantiate our framework that allows network connectivity classification and show how that classification relates to routing. We illustrate our approach by applying it to networks described by traces and by mobility models. We also outline how our framework can be used to guide network design and operation.