An Effective Infrastructure for Pocket Switch Network

摘要

In everyday life we are using Internet such as Broadband, mobile data etc. for communication. Pocket Switch Networks (PSN) uses phones as the medium to connect with others without a fixed cellular network or Internet. Since no fixed route to destination is available, problems arise when a node wants to send any message to a destination node. Packets are forwarded by flooding. Flooding causes increase in network congestion, resource consumption, delay and drop of packets. This approach can be applied to smaller networks but is inefficient in large scale. To deliver messages in a larger network with high throughput and low latency we propose an infrastructure for PSN called ZoneCluster. Firstly, we use a probabilistic approach to create clusters in the network. Secondly, we propose a routing algorithm for the clusters in the network. Lastly, we emphasize its application for larger networks such as an AD-Hoc WAN by comparing its performance with other protocols.