Message ferrying (MF) scheme is a scheme to restore a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) from partitioning. Despite of effectiveness, it suffers from long delay caused by the poor design of ferry route. The Message Ferry Route (MFR) problem has been studied to minimize this drawback of MF schemes. In this paper, we argue that an adaptive way of constructing the ferry route would be more practical an...

Transportation planning and solutions have an enormous impact on city life. To minimize the transport duration, urban planners should understand and elaborate the mobility of a city. Thus, researchers look toward monitoring people's daily activities including transportation types and duration by taking advantage of individual's smartphones. This paper introduces a novel segment-based transport ...

This paper presents an approach for conformance testing and fault injection of distributed systems supported by a tool named FSoFIST (Ferry-clip with Software Fault Injection Support Tool). The approach extends the ferryclip concept to cope with fault injection. The ferry-clip concept was aimed at providing a highly modular, flexible and configurable architecture for protocol conformance testin...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are special case of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) where non real-time applications are appreciated as compared to real time because of very frequent network partitions caused by high node mobility. Delay tolerant network (DTN) follows the approach of store and forward i.e. message ferrying. In this paper the selection of ferry to forward the data is based on...

We consider the problem of controlling mobile data ferries for message delivery among disconnected, scattered domains in a highly partitioned network. Existing work on data ferry control mostly focuses on predetermined ferry routes, assuming full observations at the ferry and no explicit Quality of Service (QoS) constraints on the resulting communications. In this paper, we aim at designing a Q...

This study provides an economic evaluation for a Land Ferry, which is a rail system capable of carrying trucks and all other types of vehicles, passengers, and cargo. The Land Ferry system involves a sliding loading system to roll heavy loads onto a flatbed; as a result, loading and unloading of all vehicles and cargo could be accomplished simultaneously. The evaluation for this system included...

We study the concept of Ferry based Wireless Local Area Network (FWLAN), in which a number of isolated nodes are scattered over some area and where communication between a node and the outer world, or communication between the nodes, are made possible via a message ferry. The Ferry has a predetermined cyclic path which collects packets from a node and delivers packets to it when it is in the vi...

In some particular environments such as battlefield, disaster recovery and wide area surveillance, most existing routing algorithms will fail to deliver messages to their destinations. Thus, it is an important research issue of how to deliver data in disconnected wireless sensor networks. This paper presents two efficient message ferry routing algorithms, denoted as MFRA1 and MFRA2, for data co...