Epidemic Message Passing in a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

A single source node (red) has a message for the destination node (blue). The message can only be passed when a node comes within communication range of another. How long will it take for the message to be delivered? The answer can be found in my recent paper titled, "A Reaction-Diffusion Model for Epidemic Routing in Sparsely Connected MANETs."

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Education

Tags:

• Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
• Epidemic Routing
• Message Passing
• Delay Tolerant Network
• Mathematical Model

[manitou1984]

Hi,

what's the name of tool used in simulation?

Thanks :-)

[danieljklein]

@manitou1984 I wrote a simple C++ program to move the agents and pass messages when appropriate. Data from each run is written to a file that is later read into Matlab for analysis and plotting. The movie is also from Matlab.

[silivrenion]

In a true ad-hoc network scenario, all the nearby nodes would maintain connection information for their specific trees, then once those trees are eventually joined, the message would be transferred.