Barun Kumar Saha
ABSTRACT
Mission-oriented networks change the network communications paradigm with the involvement of human beings in the network. In a mission-oriented network, nodes may exhibit purposeful mobility in order to achieve mission goals. Additionally, human beings, unlike simple sensor nodes, have innate intelligence and context awareness, which help them in making better decisions. In this work, we consider a specific mission-oriented network -- a post-disaster rescue scenario with human rescue workers. We define external nodes as a set of stationary nodes (representing victims, relief camps, and control centers), who require communication opportunities. We propose four simple, intuition-based schemes to model human intelligence, which imparts purposeful mobility to the internal nodes (representing rescue workers). Such mobility in the network is guaranteed through opportunistic contacts among the mobile nodes. Our results show that the number of contact opportunities with stationary nodes increases under such purposeful mobility schemes as compared to the Random Waypoint (RWP) mobility model.
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- Could human intelligence enhance communication opportunities in mission-oriented opportunistic networks?
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