Title
A survey of routing and data dissemination in Delay Tolerant Networks.
Abstract
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have practical applications in various fields. DTNs have been studied in-depth by many researchers and multiple high quality survey papers have been produced which analyzes DTN features, taxonomies, and applications. In recent years, interest in DTN research has rekindled as there are several emerging network-based application domains that require delay tolerance support and thus can use DTN specific routing and data dissemination techniques. Examples of such novel areas are Information Centric Network (ICN), Mobile ICN, Named Data Network (NDN), Internet of Things (IoT), etc. In this paper, we have surveyed those applications briefly and have proposed an alternate taxonomy for classifying existing DTN routing algorithms. The objective of this survey is to help future researchers to identify DTN specific properties in the new applications and to apply appropriate routing protocols whenever necessary. We have studied the relation between message replication and individual or group communication semantics of DTN routing protocols considering both social-based and opportunistic message forwarding techniques. We have also introduced an in-depth coverage of data dissemination protocols in DTN which can be adapted to content-centric networking domains. We conclude our survey by identifying a set of open challenges for future researchers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jnca.2016.01.002
J. Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Delay Tolerant Networks,Routing,Data dissemination,MANET
Mobile ad hoc network,Message forwarding,Computer science,Internet of Things,Communication in small groups,Computer network,Dissemination,Semantics,Routing protocol,Distributed computing,Routing algorithm
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
C
1084-8045
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
1.06
86
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sobin C. C.1303.47
Vaskar Raychoudhury223424.40
Gustavo Marfia349050.31
Ankita Singla4271.06