Event Details
On Erasure Coding in Intermittently Connected Networks
Presenter: Ahmed B. Altamimi
Supervisor: Dr. T. Aaron Gulliver
Date: Tue, August 5, 2014
Time: 13:00:00 - 00:00:00
Place: EOW 430
ABSTRACT
Abstract:
An intermittently connected network (ICN) is defined as a mobile network that uses cooperation between nodes to facilitate communication. This cooperation consists of nodes carrying messages from other nodes to help deliver them to their destinations. An ICN does not require an infrastructure and routing information is not retained by the nodes. While this may be a useful environment for message dissemination, there are challenges in routing messages. In particular, providing satisfactory delivery performance while maintaining a low overhead ratio is difficult without routing information or a network infrastructure. In this presentation, erasure coding is employed to improve the delivery rate in an ICN. The cumulative distribution function (CDF) is derived and used to evaluate the performance. It is shown that the use of erasure coding can significantly improve the message delivery rate.