My Smartphone tattles: Considering Popularity of Messages in Opportunistic Data Dissemination

Asanga Udugama, Jens Dede, Anna Förster, Vishnupriya Kuppusamy, Koojana Kuladinithi, Andreas Timm-Giel and Zeynep Vatandas
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Asanga Udugama: Sustainable Communications Networks Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Jens Dede: Sustainable Communications Networks Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Anna Förster: Sustainable Communications Networks Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Vishnupriya Kuppusamy: Sustainable Communications Networks Group, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Koojana Kuladinithi: Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Timm-Giel: Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
Zeynep Vatandas: Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany

Future Internet, 2019, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-25

Abstract: Opportunistic networks have recently seen increasing interest in the networking community. They can serve a range of application scenarios, most of them being destination-less, i.e., without a-priori knowledge of who is the final destination of a message. In this paper, we explore the usage of data popularity for improving the efficiency of data forwarding in opportunistic networks. Whether a message will become popular or not is not known before disseminating it to users. Thus, popularity needs to be estimated in a distributed manner considering a local context. We propose Keetchi , a data forwarding protocol based on Q-Learning to give more preference to popular data rather than less popular data. Our extensive simulation comparison between Keetchi and the well known Epidemic protocol shows that the network overhead of data forwarding can be significantly reduced while keeping the delivery rate the same.

Keywords: opportunistic networking; popularity; OMNeT++; OPS; organic data dissemination; Keetchi; Epidemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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