BeachNet: propagation-based information sharing in mostly static networks

Delay-tolerant and opportunistic networking are widely investigated for information exchange in (sparse) mobile scenarios, in the evaluation of which numerous mobility models and traces have been employed. These networking techniques may also be applied in static and fairly dense scenarios for non-directed information sharing, in which nodes may but need not be connected all the time. We present different information dissemination algorithms for content sharing, taking a network formed by mostly immobile users on a beach as one example and evaluate them through simulations.