Research Article

A Probabilistic Spray-and-Wait Routing Algorithm Based on Node Interest Preference in Delay Tolerant Networks

Table 1

List of notations.

NotationExplanation

Set of nodes in the network
Active area set of node
Active area information vector of node
Friends set of node
Friends information vector of node
Regional similarity of node and node
Friends similarity of node and node
Node interest preference of node to node
Quality of node of node
Probability of node successfully forwarding message to node
Probability impact factor of the probability of node successfully forwarding message to node
Node interest similarity of node and node
Storage value of message
Set of messages carried by
ACK message list of node
,Number of copies of message carried by node
Set of messages that node need to forward to node
,Threshold of node interest preference
Threshold of node interest similarity
Number of connections of