2021/08/15 by Christopher Scherb, Scherb, Christopher, Pascal Bürklin +3
Computer Science · #Caching and Content Delivery #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.06707
arxiv created 2021/08/15 · openalex publication_date 2021/08/15 · arxiv updated 2021/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Nowadays, most network systems are based on fixed and reliable infrastructure. In this context Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a novel network approach, where data is in the focus instead of hosts. Therefore, requests for data are independent from the location where the data is actually stored on. This property is optimal for infrastructure-less and swarm networking. However, the ICN does not provide support for networks without infrastructure. In this paper we present SwarMS, an architecture for swarm on-boarding, swarm coordination and swarm computations in ICN style networks. We use append-only logs to solve the challenges of loose mobile swarm organisation and executing computations. By replicating tasks on multiple nodes we achieve more reliability and trust in results.