Vehicular data offloading for resource-limited delay tolerant networks

Abstract

With the emergence of big data and the tremendous increase in traffic loads that accompanies it, there is a resurgence in the reliance on “SneakerNet” where data is stored on some sort of storage drive at the source location and the storage drive is physically taken to the destination point, rather than transmitting the data over a network. Validation experiments in a resource-limited, RF-challenged environment were completed to demonstrate the gains that can be achieved when the file size to be transferred is large enough to make it advantageous to offload traffic to a close-by vehicle and physically moving the data to the destination.