2020/01/15 by Mari Carmen de Toro, de Toro, Mari Carmen, Carlos Borrego +1
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
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2001.05257
openalex publication_date 2020/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The short-term adoption of opportunistic networks (OppNet) depends on\nimproving the current performance of this type of network. Software-Defined\nNetworks (SDN) architecture is used by Internet applications with high resource\ndemand. SDN technology improves network performance by programmatically\nmanaging the network configuration by using a control layer. In this paper, we\npropose that OppNet nodes use a control layer to get an overview of the whole\nnetwork and use this knowledge to apply policies to get a better performance of\nthe network. As a use case for our experimentation, we have focused on\nimproving congestion control in OppNet with a control layer that dynamically\nregulates the replication degree used by forwarding algorithms. We have\ncompared the performance of our proposal with two different configurations of\nthe OppNet, over two community scenarios based on real mobility traces. The\nresults of the test prove that our SDN-like approach overruns the other two\napproaches in terms of delivery ratio and latency time performance.\n