title: An agenda-based routing protocol in delay tolerant mobile sensor networks.
abstract: Routing in delay tolerant mobile sensor networks (DTMSNs) is challenging due to the networks' intermittent connectivity. Most existing routing protocols for DTMSNs use simplistic random mobility models for algorithm design and performance evaluation. In the real world, however, due to the unique characteristics of human mobility, currently existing random mobility models may not work well in environments where mobile sensor units are carried (such as DTMSNs). Taking a person's social activities into consideration, in this paper, we seek to improve DTMSN routing in terms of social structure and propose an agenda based routing protocol (ARP). In ARP, humans are classified based on their agendas and data transmission is made according to sensor nodes' transmission rankings. The effectiveness of ARP is demonstrated through comprehensive simulation studies.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of Chengdu 610054, China. xiaomin.wang@126.com
authors.forename: Xiao-Min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jin-Qi
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hai-Gang
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical