Distribution of the Latest Content in Dynamic Content Updates over Delay Tolerant Networks

Yong LI  Depeng JIN  Li SU  Lieguang ZENG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences  Vol.E95-A  No.7  pp.1211-1214
Publication Date: 2012/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Mobile Information Network and Personal Communications
Keyword: 
dynamic content updates,  delay tolerant networks,  performance analysis, 

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Summary: 
The applications of dynamic content updates for a group of users, for example weather reports and news broadcast, have been shown to benefit significantly from Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) communication mechanisms. In this paper, we study the performance of dynamic content updates over DTNs by focusing on the latest content distribution, which is an important factor of the system energy consumption and content update efficiency. By characterizing the content generating process and content sharing process, we obtain an explicit expression for the latest content distribution, and prove it theoretically. Moreover, through simulations based on two synthetical mobility models and a real-world scenario, we demonstrate the accuracy and correctness of the theoretically obtained result.