Superprocesses as models for information dissemination in the Future Internet

摘要

Future Internet will be composed by a tremendous number of potentiallyinterconnected people and devices, offering a variety of services, applicationsand communication opportunities. In particular, short-range wirelesscommunications, which are available on almost all portable devices, will enablethe formation of the largest cloud of interconnected, smart computing devicesmankind has ever dreamed about: the Proximate Internet. In this paper, weconsider superprocesses, more specifically super Brownian motion, as a suitablemathematical model to analyse a basic problem of information disseminationarising in the context of Proximate Internet. The proposed model provides apromising analytical framework to both study theoretical properties related tothe information dissemination process and to devise efficient and reliablesimulation schemes for very large systems.