Title: An efficient event delivery scheme in mobile ad hoc communities

Authors: Juan Li; Samee Ullah Khan; Qingrui Li

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA. ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA. ' Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA

Abstract: Delivering events and advertisements to interested individuals is an important issue for mobile ad hoc communities. Providing a feasible solution to event delivery in highly dynamic and error prone mobile ad hoc environments is a challenging problem due to the inherent unreliable and unstable nature of mobile ad hoc networks. This paper proposes a novel semantics-based publish/subscribe scheme for efficient event and advertisement delivery in large-scale mobile ad hoc communities. In our proposed publish/subscribe system, mobile nodes are organised into groups and a compact semantics-based indexing is deployed in the groups. Efficient intra- and inter-group routings are proposed to facilitate efficient propagation of event notifications. The effectiveness of the system is demonstrated through a comprehensive set of simulation studies.

Keywords: publish-subscribe systems; semantics; wireless networks; routing; event delivery schemes; mobile ad hoc networks; MANETS; mobile networks; advertisement delivery; advert delivery; adverts; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2013.050504

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2013 Vol.10 No.1, pp.25 - 39

Received: 07 Feb 2011
Accepted: 28 Mar 2011

Published online: 28 Jun 2013 *

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