Authors:
Sanjay K. Dhurandher
1
;
Satya Jyoti Borah
1
;
Mohammad S. Obaidat
2
;
Deepak Kr. Sharma
1
;
Sahil Gupta
1
and
Bikash Baruah
3
Affiliations:
1
CAITFS, Divison of Information Technology, Netaji Subash Institute of Technology and University of Delhi, India
;
2
Monmouth University, United States
;
3
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology and Deemed University, India
Keyword(s):
Opportunistic Networks, Opportunistic Network Simulator (ONE) Environment, Epidemic, Spray and Wait, Prophet, Routing Protocol.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Communication Middleware
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Opportunistic networks (Oppnet) are challenged networks in present wireless communication scenario. These
networks are mainly applied to situations where a persistent end–to-end path between the source and the
destination does not exist. Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is mostly used to solve this end-to-end
path problem in such networks. Many routing protocols have been proposed in literature that consider
various performance metrics such as delivery delay, packet delivery rate, hop count, among others. In this
paper, a new routing protocol named as PRoWait has been designed which can overcome the shortcomings
of the already existing protocols in Oppnets. The proposed protocol also incorporates the merits of existing
protocol so that it can be reliable and efficient for the communication of pedestrians with handheld devices.
Simulation results obtained for the proposed scheme show better performance as compared to the Porphet,
Spray and Wait and Epidemic routing
protocols in terms of packets delivery probability, overhead ratio, and
hop count performance metrics.
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