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   <dc:title>Bundles fragmentation in vehicular delay-tolerant networks</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Magaia, N</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Pereira, P. R.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Casaca, A.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Rodrigues, J.J.P.C.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Dias, J. A.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Isento, J. N.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Cervelló Pastor, Cristina</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Gallego Ezpeleta, J.</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Telemàtica</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BAMPLA - Disseny i Avaluació de Xarxes i Serveis de Banda Ampla</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Protocols de comunicació</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Vehicular ad hoc networks (Computer networks)</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Computer networks -- Reliability</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Protocols de xarxes d'ordinadors</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks use the delaytolerant&#xd;
architecture and protocols to overcome the disruptions in&#xd;
network connectivity. These concepts help in cases where the&#xd;
network is sparse or with large variations in density or there is no&#xd;
end-to-end connectivity, by providing a communications solution&#xd;
for non real-time applications. This paper presents data&#xd;
fragmentation techniques to optimize the efficiency of data&#xd;
delivery for the case of the short node contacts that characterize&#xd;
vehicle networks. The techniques were tested in a laboratory&#xd;
environment with portable digital assistants and Lego Mindstorm&#xd;
NXT robotic cars. If no fragmentation is used, only small&#xd;
messages are successfully transferred. Proactive fragmentation&#xd;
fragments messages to a predefined size in the source node.&#xd;
Reactive fragmentation adjusts the fragment sizes to the real&#xd;
duration of the contact when it is broken. Reactive fragmentation&#xd;
showed a good efficiency in adapting the fragmentation in real&#xd;
time to the contact duration. Proactive fragmentation can&#xd;
perform slightly better if the fragment sizes are carefully chosen&#xd;
as it requires less processing. As this choice is difficult, reactive&#xd;
fragmentation is more practical to use.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Postprint (published version)</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2012</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Conference report</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>Magaia, N. [et al.]. Bundles fragmentation in vehicular delay-tolerant networks. A: Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering. "2011 7th EURO-NGI conference on next generation internet networks NGI, 2011 June 27, 2011 June 29, Kaiserslautern, Germany: proceedings". Kaiserslautern: IEEE, 2012, p. 1-6.</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>978-1-4577-0917-3</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/15168</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>10.1109/NGI.2011.5985945</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:relation>http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=5985945</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Restricted access - publisher's policy</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>6 p.</dc:format>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:publisher>IEEE</dc:publisher>
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