Miranda, HugoLeggio, SimoneRodrigues, LuísRaatikainen, Kimmo2009-02-102014-11-142009-02-102014-11-142005-12http://hdl.handle.net/10451/14230http://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10455/2932Replication of data items among different nodes of a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is an efficient technique to increase data availability and improve access latency. This paper proposes a novel algorithm to distribute cached data items among nodes in a MANET. The algorithm combines a probabilistic approach with latency constraints such as the distance from both the source and the clients of the data item. In most scenarios, our approach allows any node to retrieve a data item from a nearby neighbour (often, just one hop away). The paper describes the algorithm and provides its performance evaluation for several different network configurationsporEpidemic AlgorithmsMANETDistributed Data Storagereport