Optimal monotone forwarding policies in delay tolerant mobile ad-hoc networks

Eitan Altman, Tamer Başar, Francesco De Pellegrini

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Abstract

We study fluid approximations for a class of monotone relay policies in delay tolerant ad-hoc networks. This class includes the epidemic routing and the two-hops routing protocols. We enhance relay policies with probabilistic forwarding, i.e., a message is forwarded to a relay with some probability p. We formulate an optimal control problem where a tradeoff between delay and energy consumption is captured and optimized. We compute both the optimal static value of p as well as the optimal time dependent value of p. We show that the time-dependent problem is optimized by threshold type policies, and we compute explicitly the value of the optimal threshold for some special classes of relay policies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)299-317
Number of pages19
JournalPerformance Evaluation
Volume67
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2010

Keywords

  • Delay tolerant networks
  • Fluid models
  • Optimal control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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