On using contact expectation for routing in delay tolerant networks

Honglong Chen, Wei Lou

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Abstract

Conventional routing algorithms rely on the existence of persistent end-to-end paths for the delivery of a message to its destination via a predesigned path. However, in a delay tolerant network (DTN), nodes are intermittently connected, and thus the network topology is dynamic in nature, which makes the routing become one of the most challenging problems. A promising solution is to predict the nodes' future contacts based on their contact histories. In this paper, we first propose an expected encounter based routing protocol (EER) which distributes multiple replicas of a message proportionally between two encounters according to their expected encounter values. In case of single replica of a message, EER makes the routing decision by comparing the minimum expected meeting delay to the destination. We further propose a community based routing protocol (CR) which takes advantages of the high contact frequency property of the community. The simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed routing protocols under different network parameters.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2011
Pages683-692
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Nov 2011
Event40th International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2011 - Taipei City, Taiwan
Duration: 13 Sept 201116 Sept 2011

Conference

Conference40th International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2011
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei City
Period13/09/1116/09/11

Keywords

  • Delay tolerant networks
  • Expected encounter value
  • Minimum expected meeting delay
  • Routing protocols

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • General Mathematics
  • Hardware and Architecture

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