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@ARTICLE{,
    author = {Rizzo, Gianluca and Manzo, Gaetano and Marsan, Marco G Ajmone},
  keywords = {floating content, opportunistic communications, VANETs},
     month = jan,
     title = {Analytical Models of Floating Content in a Vehicular Urban Environment},
   journal = {Elsevier Ad-Hoc networks},
      year = {2019},
       url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.01.003},
       doi = {10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.01.003},
  abstract = {Among the many proposed opportunistic content sharing schemes, Floating Content
(FC) is of special interest for the vehicular environment, not only for cellular traffic
offloading, but also as a natural communication paradigm for location-based contextaware
vehicular applications.
Previously published results on the performance of vehicular FC have mostly focused
on the conditions under which content persists over time in a given region of
space, without addressing other important aspects of vehicular FC performance, such
as the effectiveness with which content is replicated and made available, and the system
conditions that enable good FC performance.
This work presents a first analytical model of FC performance in vehicular networks
in urban settings. It is based on a new synthetic mobility model (called District
Mobility Model - DMM) , and it does not require a detailed knowledge of the road grid
geometry.
We validate our model extensively, by comparison against numerical simulations
based on real-world traces, and we prove our model accuracy under a variety of mobility
patterns and traffic conditions. Our analytical and simulation results provide evidence of the effectiveness of the
FC paradigm in realistic urban settings over a wide range of traffic conditions.}
}