Opportunistic P2P communications in delay-tolerant rural scenarios

  • Authors:
  • Marcel C. Castro;Laura Galluccio;Andreas Kassler;Corrado Rametta

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department-Telematics, Karlstad University, Sweden;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni, universitá di Catania, Italy;Computer Science Department-Telematics, Karlstad University, Sweden;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni, universitá di Catania, Italy

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on opportunistic and delay tolerant networks
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Opportunistic networking represents a promising paradigm for support of communications, specifically in infrastructureless scenarios such as remote areas communications. In principle in opportunistic environments, we would like to make available all the applications thought for traditional wired and wireless networks like file-sharing and content distribution. In this paper, we present a delay-tolerant scenario for file sharing applications in rural areas, where an opportunistic approach is exploited. In order to support communications, we compare two peer-to-peer (P2P) schemes initially conceived for wireless networks and prove their applicability and usefulness to a DTN scenario, where replication of resources can be used to improve the lookup performance and the network can be occasionally connected by means of a data mule. Simulation results show the suitability of the schemes and allow to derive interesting design guidelines on the convenience and applicability of such approaches.