Title: A novel distributed node searching method in DTNs

Authors: Yiqin Deng; Ming Zhao; Zhengjiang Wu; Longhua Xiao

Addresses: Software Engineering, College of Software, Central South University, Railway Campus, Shaoshan Road, P.O. Box 410075, Changsha, China ' Software Engineering, College of Software, Central South University, Railway Campus, Shaoshan Road, P.O. Box 410075, Changsha, China ' Software Engineering, College of Software, Central South University, Railway Campus, Shaoshan Road, P.O. Box 410075, Changsha, China ' Software Engineering, College of Software, Central South University, Railway Campus, Shaoshan Road, P.O. Box 410075, Changsha, China

Abstract: Among conventional target tracking methods in delay-tolerant networks (DTNs), there exists a type of distributed approach which is efficient with regard to target tracking. However, some nodes in these methods consume energy too quickly, resulting in energy holes and a short network lifetime. Based on the above, this research developed a novel target track strategy (MAtracking), on the basis of a mobile anchor (MA) and any correlation between nodes. It improves the effect of the target tracking through two new mechanisms: first, a new data collection method (MA), is adopted. Secondly, the correlation between nodes is used to track the target in the absence of valid mobile information about it. A large number of experimental results from real data simulations show that the proposed MAtracking method can improve the network lifetime and tracking efficiency compared with existing approaches.

Keywords: delay-tolerant networks; DTNs; target tracking; mobile anchor; correlation of nodes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.094946

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2018 Vol.12 No.3, pp.278 - 288

Received: 03 Jun 2016
Accepted: 26 Aug 2016
Published online: 28 Sep 2018 *

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