Mauro Margalho Coutinho, Thierry Moreira, E. Silva, A. Efrat, Thienne M. Johnson
{"title":"A new proposal of data mule network focused on Amazon riverine population","authors":"Mauro Margalho Coutinho, Thierry Moreira, E. Silva, A. Efrat, Thienne M. Johnson","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new proposal to provide electronic health care for riverine communities through Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), using boats as data mules. The focus of this project is based in specific scenarios without telecommunications infrastructure, like Marajó Archipelago, located in north of Brazil, at Amazon Forest.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"555 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123312070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and implementation of a low-power energy management module with emergency reserve for solar powered DTN-nodes","authors":"M. Doering, S. Rottmann, L. Wolf","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414399","url":null,"abstract":"DTN nodes often idly wait for contacts and unnecessarily consume energy during these periods. For solar-powered nodes this means that solar panels and batteries could be much smaller with an efficient energy management, reducing the physical size of these nodes. We present our design of a solar-powered DTN node including a module that handles solar charge management, energy management and a discovery mechanism to wake sleeping nodes. Moreover, the system senses the remaining battery capacity, and keeps a reserve for emergency communications. Our evaluation shows that the power management module's design is energy-efficient and performs as intended. Furthermore, we evaluate the discovery mechanism. The results show that the capabilities of the module offer a promising new approach to the implementation of energy efficient routing in DTNs.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116064363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aidan Lynch, S. Farrell, A. McMahon, S. Weber, Kerry Hartnett
{"title":"DTN trials and router updates","authors":"Aidan Lynch, S. Farrell, A. McMahon, S. Weber, Kerry Hartnett","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414404","url":null,"abstract":"We describe DTN trials carried out as part of the N4C project over the last year. These trials took place in two locations, Padjelanta national park in northern Sweden between early July and late August 2010 and Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, during early 2011. We also give an overview of the updates made to the hardware and software components used since previous trials and we outline an upcoming DTN trial planned for summer 2011 as part of the SAIL project.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128920979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
João Batista Pinto Neto, E. N. Silva, Edjair Mota, E. Cerqueira, P. Almeida, R. Rojas
{"title":"Evaluating contact volume in DTN networks","authors":"João Batista Pinto Neto, E. N. Silva, Edjair Mota, E. Cerqueira, P. Almeida, R. Rojas","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414396","url":null,"abstract":"In a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), a contact is the opportunity to transfer data between DTN nodes. A contact occurs when at least one of the nodes is in movement. The duration time of a contact, termed dwell time, can vary from few seconds up to several hours. This period must be seized to transfer as many bundles, a basic data unit of DTN, as possible. DTN approaches are key solution to transmit data in rural and isolated areas, such as forests. This work is part of Amazon Regatão project, whose goal is to provide Internet access to riparian communities of Amazon Rivers based on DTN schemes. We have developed a novel technique to predict the amount of bundles to be transferred during a DTN contact. Measuring campaigns were carried out to evaluate propagation and bundle throughput in different locations in the core of the Amazon region. The results can be used to design a queue bundle strategy and bundle proactive fragmentation to optimize the delivery ratio in DTNs. Real experiments were conduct at the Experimental Farm and at the Campus of Federal University of Amazonas, using IEEE 802.11n interface routers and a DTN Reference Implementation.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134287372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing fast mobility in wireless multi-hop networks with LISP","authors":"M. F. Almirall, L. Iannone, R. Merz","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414405","url":null,"abstract":"The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) has been developped in recent years in order to solve the scalability issues the current Internet Architecture is facing. Differently from the current addressing system, where end-systems' identifier and location information are merged in one single entity, i.e., the IP address, LISP aims at using two different address spaces to identify and to locate end-systems. Such a separation turns out to be very useful in the context of networks with highly mobile end-systems, where the information \"who is where\" changes rapidly.\u0000 In the present paper, we propose and show how LISP can be used in the context of wireless multi-hop network in order to provide support for fast mobility to end-systems. Furthermore, we present our efforts to provide a LISP implementation, using the Click Modular Router, running over the BOWL (Berlin Open Wireless Lab) testbed deployed in our Labs.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121729451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Link, Christoph Wollgarten, Stefan Schupp, Klaus Wehrle
{"title":"Perfect difference sets for neighbor discovery: energy efficient and fair","authors":"J. Link, Christoph Wollgarten, Stefan Schupp, Klaus Wehrle","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414398","url":null,"abstract":"We present an energy efficient neighbor discovery framework that enables Linux and TinyOS based systems to discover and connect to neighbors via IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4, which are only available sporadically. Using quorum schemes, we schedule on and off times of the wireless transmitters, to guarantee mutual discovery with minimum power given a specific latency requirement. Neighbor discovery is fundamental to intermittently connected networks, such as disruption and delay tolerant networks and optimizing it, can lead to significant overall energy savings.\u0000 Using perfect difference sets, our results indicate that we reduce the latency by up to 10 times at a duty cycle of 2% compared to the state of the art. We further define and characterize our neighbor discovery scheme with respect to fairness for asymmetric energy scenarios. Using these results, we allow energy-harvesting applications to adjust neighbor discovery based on their current energy requirements as a well defined trade-off.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134133478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Hossmann, F. Legendre, Paolo Carta, P. Gunningberg, C. Rohner
{"title":"Twitter in disaster mode: opportunistic communication and distribution of sensor data in emergencies","authors":"T. Hossmann, F. Legendre, Paolo Carta, P. Gunningberg, C. Rohner","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414394","url":null,"abstract":"Recent events (earthquakes, floods, etc.) have shown that users heavily rely on online social networks (OSN) to communicate and organize during disasters and in their aftermath. In this paper, we discuss what features could be added to OSN apps for smart phones -- for the example of Twitter -- to make them even more useful for disaster situations. In particular, we consider cases where the fixed communication infrastructure is partially or totally wiped out and propose to equip regular Twitter apps with a disaster mode. The disaster mode relies on opportunistic communication and epidemic spreading of Tweets from phone to phone. Such \"disaster-ready\" applications would allow to resume (although limited) communication instantaneously and help distressed people to self-organize until regular communication networks are functioning again, or, temporary emergency communication infrastructure is installed.\u0000 We argue why we believe that Twitter with its simplicity and versatile features (e.g., retweet and hashtag) is a good platform to support a variety of different situations and present Twimight, our disaster ready Twitter application. In addition, we propose Twimight as a platform for disseminating sensor data providing information such as locations of drinkable water sources. Eventually, we propose to rely on interest matching to scale Twitter hashtag-based searches in an opportunistic environment. The combination of these features make our opportunistic Twitter the ideal emergency kit in situations of disasters. We discuss and define the main implementation and research challenges (both technical and non-technical).","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125124136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delay tolerant network on smartphones: applications for communication challenged areas","authors":"Hervé Ntareme, M. Zennaro, B. Pehrson","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414407","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) service and protocol stack and presents an implementation of it on the Android platform that is called \"Bytewalla\". It allows the use of Android phones for the physical transport of data between network nodes in areas where there are no other links available, or where existing links need to be avoided for security reasons or in case the Internet is shut down by a government authority like it happened in some Arab countries during the spring of 2011.\u0000 The implementation of a store and forward messaging application and a Sentinel Surveillance health-care application (SSA) that runs on top of Bytewalla are presented together with a few usage scenarios. Our conclusion is that the integration of DTN links in the general IP-network architecture on mobile phone platform is feasible and will make it easier to integrate DTN applications into communication-challenged areas. To our knowledge our implementation of the bundle protocol is the first on the Android platform.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124489844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Salvador, D. Macedo, J. Nogueira, J. Nobre, P. A. P. R. Duarte, L. Granville
{"title":"Towards an architecture for managing delay-tolerant emergency networks","authors":"E. Salvador, D. Macedo, J. Nogueira, J. Nobre, P. A. P. R. Duarte, L. Granville","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414395","url":null,"abstract":"Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), just like any other computer network, need to be managed. However, until now little was achieved in the research for specific management solutions for DTNs, due to the fact that these networks are still in their infancy. In this paper we present some initial steps in the development of a management architecture for Delay-Tolerant Emergency Networks (DTENs), which is a specific case of DTN. Among the design definitions of our architecture, we can cite the use of the policy continuum concept, the division of the network into groups and the need for autonomic control loops to implement local management functions.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"174 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113973038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstration of a low-power energy management module with emergency reserve for solar-powered DTN-nodes","authors":"M. Doering, S. Rottmann, L. Wolf","doi":"10.1145/2414393.2414400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414393.2414400","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a field experiment and a demonstration of a solar powered DTN node with a power management module. This module reduces the power consumption of the node by turning it off when the node is idle. It also handles solar charge management, energy management and a discovery mechanism to wakeup sleeping nodes.","PeriodicalId":200060,"journal":{"name":"Extreme Conference on Communication","volume":"34 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113973446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}