On the trade-off between delivery delay and power consumption in opportunistic scenarios

Opportunistic networking is rapidly emerging as a suitable communication paradigm to characterize social networking applications and contents dissemination. However, due to the sparsity of the opportunistic network, it is expected that the considered mobility model will play a crucial role in the delivery performance of the opportunistic system. Accordingly in this paper we present an analysis of the impact of different conventional mobility models on the delivery performance of opportunistic networks. In particular, we focus on the estimation of the packet delivery delay and the power consumption associated to the delivery procedure which are the two key metrics to be traded-off according to the application requirements.