A delay and cost balancing protocol for message routing in mobile delay tolerant networks

The increasing pervasiveness of mobile devices with networking capabilities has led to the emergence of Mobile Delay Tolerant Networks (MDTNs). The characteristics of MDTNs, which include frequent and long-term partitions, make message routing a major challenge in these networks. Most of the existing routing protocols either allocate an unlimited number of message copies or use a fixed number of message copies to route a message towards its destination. While the first approach unnecessarily floods the network, the rigidity of the second approach makes it inefficient from the viewpoint of message replication. Hence, the question that we address in this paper is: “how to dynamically allocate message copies in order to strike a balance between the delay and cost of message delivery?”. We present a novel adaptive multi-step routing protocol for MDTNs. In each routing step, our protocol reasons on the remaining time-tolive of the message in order to allocate the minimum number of c...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: ADHOC
• Authors: Jingwei Miao, Omar Hasan, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Lionel Brunie, Gabriele Gianini
• Keywords: ADHOC 2015, Applied Computing