Home // International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, volume 5, numbers 3 and 4, 2012 // View article

Location-Aware Routing for Service-Oriented Opportunistic Computing

Authors:
Nicolas Le Sommer
Yves Mahéo

Keywords: Opportunistic Computing; Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Abstract:
Smartphones, tablets, netbooks and laptops are intensively used every day by a large part of the population. These devices---which are equipped with Wi-Fi interfaces---can form disconnected mobile ad hoc networks (DMANETs) dynamically. These networks may allow service providers, such as local authorities, to deliver new kinds of services in a wide area (e.g., a city) without resorting to the infrastructure-based networks of mobile phone operators. This paper presents OLFServ, a new location-aware forwarding protocol dedicated to service-oriented opportunistic computing in DMANETs. This protocol implements several self-pruning heuristics allowing mobile nodes to decide whether they efficiently contribute in the message delivery. The protocol has been implemented in a service-oriented middleware platform, and has been validated through simulations, which proved its efficiency.

Pages: 225 to 235

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2012. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2012

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2644