A social-aware routing protocol for opportunistic networks

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Highlights：

• Swarm intelligence-based approach designed to intermittently connected networks.

• Greedy Ant Colony Optimization and Cultural Algorithms to address the routing problem.

• The utility of nodes as message forwarders considers a set of socialaware metrics.

• Operational metrics characterize the opportunistic social connectivity between nodes.

• CGrAnt outperforms Epidemic, PROPHET, and dLife in message delivery and redundancy.

摘要

•Swarm intelligence-based approach designed to intermittently connected networks.•Greedy Ant Colony Optimization and Cultural Algorithms to address the routing problem.•The utility of nodes as message forwarders considers a set of socialaware metrics.•Operational metrics characterize the opportunistic social connectivity between nodes.•CGrAnt outperforms Epidemic, PROPHET, and dLife in message delivery and redundancy.

论文关键词：Cultural algorithms,Ant colony optimization,Social analysis,Routing protocol,Intermittently connected networks

论文评审过程：Received 22 April 2015, Revised 19 October 2015, Accepted 19 January 2016, Available online 2 February 2016, Version of Record 23 February 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.01.039