METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR BACK-END ASSISTED COMMUNICATION ROUTING IN A DISRUPTION TOLERANT NETWORK OF MOBILE STATIONS

摘要

A first mobile station (MS) in a disruption tolerant network (DTN) reports, to an infrastructure network, contact pattern information comprising identities and indications of times at which the other MSs and infrastructure devices were determined to be within direct communication range of the first MS. The first MS then receives a set of DTN routing rules for routing communications to any target device via the DTN network. The first MS detects a first communication for transmission to a target device via the DTN network and identifies as a function of the set of the DTN routing rules, one or more but less than all intermediary MSs for storing and forwarding the first communication towards the target device. The first MS then transmits the first communication to the identified one or more intermediary MSs when they are determined to be within direct wireless communication range.