PASA: Passive broadcast for smartphone ad-hoc networks

Ying Mao, Jiayin Wang, Joseph Paul Cohen, Bo Sheng

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Abstract

Smartphones have become more and more popular in the past few years. Motivated by the fact that location plays an extremely important role in mobile applications, this paper develops an efficient local message dissemination system PASA based on a new communication model called passive broadcast. It is based on the method of overloading device names described in MDSRoB [14] and Bluejacking [23]. In this new model, each node does not maintain connection state and data delivery is initialized by a receiver via a 'scan' operation. The representative carriers of passive broadcast include Bluetooth and WiFi-Direct, both of which define a mandatary 'peer discovery' scan function. Passive broadcast features negligible cost for establishing and maintaining direct links and is extremely suitable for short message dissemination in the proximity. In this paper, we present PASA with complete protocols and in-depth analysis for optimization. We have prototyped our solution on commercial phones and evaluated it with comprehensive experiments and simulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, ICCCN Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479935727
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Sep 2014
Event2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, ICCCN 2014 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 4 Aug 20147 Aug 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
ISSN (Print)1095-2055

Other

Other2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, ICCCN 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period4/08/147/08/14

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