Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) Conference Start Date: 2014, Sept. 14 Conference End Date: 2014, Sept. 17 Conference Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada An intermittently connected network (ICN) is a mobile network that uses cooperation between nodes to facilitate communication. This cooperation consists of nodes carrying messages from other nodes in order to deliver it to the destination. An ICN does not require an infrastructure, and it does not store routing information, so it is an attractive networking environment. However, the challenge is how to achieve a high probability of message delivery with no routing information or network infrastructure. In this paper, network coding is employed to improve the delivery probability in an ICN. The benefit of using network coding over message replication is determined analytically and verified by simulation.