Paper Info
Title
A cooperative mobile throwbox-based routing protocol for social-aware delay tolerant networks
Abstract
In delay tolerant networks (DTNs), nodes have intermittent connectivity patterns due to various factors such as mobility, sparse network topology, and unpredictable movement patterns. In such networks, nodesstoremessages,carrythem along as they move andforwardthem opportunistically whenever an encounter occurs. In many DTN applications, such as in disaster situations and remote regions with no communications infrastructure, we can envisage a network topology formed by the mobility and contact pattern of people carrying their mobile devices. The social behavior of people (nodes) in Spatio-temporal dimensions governs the formation of such a topology. To improve data dissemination in such networks, several works have proposed to utilize social-aware metrics for the selection of relays. However, existing routing protocols for DTNs may perform poorly in the scenarios in which nodes are localized in multiple small regions, and the topology is sparse such as in co-located villages in remote regions with no communication infrastructure. This work proposes a Cooperative mobile throwbox-based routing protocol (CMTR) for social-aware DTNs. In CMTR, static and mobile ThrowBoxes (TBs) are deployed to improve the efficiency of a DTN. The static and mobile TBs cooperatively relay data to enhance network efficiency. Performance evaluation via simulations in ONE simulator shows that CMTR improves the data delivery ratio, delays, and energy efficiency as compared to Epidemic routing and Bubble Rap routing schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11276-020-02288-1
WIRELESS NETWORKS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Delay tolerant networks,Throwbox,Social-aware,Routing
Journal
26.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6.0
1022-0038
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Malik Muhammad Qirtas120.37
Yasir Faheem2364.78
Mubashir Husain Rehmani381954.69