Anycast routing is very useful for many applications such as resource discovery in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). In this paper, we first analyze the anycast semantics for DTN based on a new DTN model. Then we present a novel metric named EMDDA (Expected Multi-Destination Delay for Anycast) and a corresponding routing algorithm for anycast routing in DTNs. Extensive simulation results show tha...

wireless sensor networks are the new generation of networks that typically are formed great numbers of nodes and the communications of these nodes are done as wireless. the main goal of these networks is collecting data from neighboring environment of network sensors. since the sensor nodes are battery operated and there is no possibility of charging or replacing the batteries, the lifetime of ...

Multi-constraint quality-of-service routing will become increasingly important as the Internet evolves to support real-time services. It is well known however, that optimum multi-constraint QoS routing is computationally complex, and for this reason various heuristics have been proposed for routing in practical situations. Among these methods, those that use a single mixed metric are the mo...

Load balanced routing is a long standing yet challenging problem. Despite many years’ of work there is still a gap between theoretical research and practical algorithms. The main contribution in this paper is to bridge the gap and provide rigorous analysis of a practically interesting algorithm for routing in a large scale sensor network of complex shape – routing by using the medial axis of th...

in this paper we address the vrpcd, in which a set of homogeneous vehicles are used to transport products from the suppliers to customers via a cross-dock. the products can be consolidated at the cross-dock but cannot be stored for very long as the cross-dock does not have long-term inventory-holding capabilities. the objective of the vrpcd is to minimize the total traveled distance while respe...

internet traffic has grown exponentially over last few years due to provision of multiple class services through internet backbone. with the explosive use of internet, contemporary internet routers are susceptible to overloads and their services deteriorate drastically and often cause denial of services. in this paper, an analysis is made how forecasting technique, routing algorithm and genetic...

customer service level is of prime importance in today competitive world and has various dimensions with delivery quality being one of the most important ones. delivery quality has several parameters such as deliver time window options, time window size, etc. in this paper we focus on one of these parameters, namely time window setting. it has a direct impact upon customer satisfaction and busi...