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Today, the media content delivery in intermittent connected networks has become increasingly critical. This paper studies content exchange among mobile commuters in urban transport systems. Our work is inspired by two facts: (1) the commuters in urban transport systems tend to take regular routes to the same place every weekday and their paths exhibit a high degree of temporal and spatial regularities; (2) the rapid development of broadband wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11n makes fast data transfer possible. We first propose a new disconnection-tolerant network infrastructure, which reinforces the connectivity of intermittent connected mobile commuters and uses store-and-forward routers to increase their encounter opportunity, and in turn achieves efficient media content delivery among them. Then a router-centric prediction method is designed to collect passengers’ historical path information to determine the best delivery scheme. We evaluate the feasibility and the performance of the proposed infrastructure as well as the delivery scheme, using real data set from an urban transport system. The simulation results demonstrate the proposed system is highly practical in terms of the memory usage of routers and the maximum achievable data transfer rate.








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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61271226, 61272410, 61202460 and 61471408; by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (“863”Program) of China under Grants 2014AA01A701 and 2015AA011303; by the National Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province under Grant 2014CFA040; by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grants 2014M560608; and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2015QN073.
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Wei, W., Wang, C., Lin, H. et al. A novel networking architecture for mobile content delivery in urban transport systems. Wireless Netw 22, 427–438 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-015-0958-4
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