Opportunistic networks aim to provide reliable communications in an intermittently connected environment. The research in cache management of opportunistic networks has been done a lot in those aspects, such as queue strategy, cache replace, redundancy delete, etc. But most of the existing studies only focus on a subdivision of the buffer management. To deal with such case, this article proposes a comprehensive integration buffer management strategy, called comprehensive-integrated buffer management (CIM), which takes all information relevant to message delivery and network resources into consideration. The simulation experiments show that the CIM strategy improved the performance in terms of delivery ratio, overhead ratio, and average delivery delay.
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