Two-Level Community-Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

Delay tolerant networks can not maintain end-to-end connectivity. Thus the routing is one of the critical issues. As we known, the two-level community model including the small community and the big community is proposed for the first time. In the same small community, any two member nodes are friends with each other. And in the same big community which is constructed of some small communities, any two communities have some pairs of friend nodes between them. Based on this model, a two-level community-based routing (TLCR) algorithm is presented in delay tolerant networks. In TLCR, according to the location of packet holder including inside the small community of destination node, inside of the big community and outside of the small community of destination node, and outside of the big community of destination node, the different packet forwarding strategies are investigated. The number of relay nodes selected by a packet holder is decreasing with the holder’s location from inside of the small community of destination node to outside of the big community of destination node. The probability of the source node successfully delivers the packet to the destination node and the copies number corresponding with the above three locations are analyzed, respectively. The simulation results show that TLCR not only improves the delivery ratio but also greatly reduces the resource cost.

     

Context-Aware Routing in Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks

In this paper, we analyze the problem of context adaptation in delay and disruption tolerant networks (DTNs). Initially, we performed experiments with well-known routing protocols to evaluate how much distinct configurations impact their performance. The results show that the performance is highly configuration dependent and improper configuration can lead to a performance up to 506.6 % worse than the best configuration tested. This motivates us to propose CARTOON (context-aware routing protocol for opportunistic networks), a novel routing protocol for DTNs based on the concept of context-adaptation. We evaluate CARTOON through simulations and the results show that our propose outperformed other well-known protocols, exhibiting results that are, on average, at 95 % of the computed optimum delivery rate.     

Secure Multi-copy Routing in Compromised Delay Tolerant Networks

Routing in delay tolerant networks (DTNs) is challenging due to their unique characteristics of intermittent node connectivity. Different protocols (single-, multi-copy, erasure-coding-based etc.) utilizing store-carry-and-forward paradigm have been proposed to achieve routing of messages in such environments by opportunistic message exchanges between nodes that are in the communication range of each other. The sparsity and distributed nature of these networks together with the lack of stable connectivity between source destination pairs make these networks vulnerable to malicious nodes which might attempt to learn the content of the messages being routed between the nodes. In this paper, we study DTNs in which malicious nodes are present, to which we refer to as compromised DTNs. We discuss and analyze the effects of presence of malicious nodes on routing of messages in compromised DTNs. We propose a two period routing approach which aims at achieving the desired delivery ratio by a given delivery deadline in presence of malicious nodes. Our simulation results with both random networks and real DTN traces show that, with proper parameter setting, the proposed method can achieve delivery ratios which surpass those reached by other algorithms by a given delivery deadline.     

Adaptive Spraying for Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

Message delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) is challenging due to the fact that the network is intermittently connected. Mobility can be exploited to improve DTN performance. In this paper, we propose a DTN routing scheme Adaptive Spraying. Adaptive Spraying exploits mobility pattern and encounter history to predict the number of nodes with no copy a node will encounter within the expected delay. The number of nodes encountered can be viewed as the number of copies disseminated. Each node with copies dynamically chooses the number of copies by itself, instead of a fixed number determined at the source node. We present an analysis of the scheme and validate the analytical results with simulations. Simulation results show that Adaptive Spraying performs well over a variety of environmental conditions such as transmission range and traffic load.     

An Improved Routing Algorithm Based on Social Link Awareness in Delay Tolerant Networks

The routing efficiency in delay tolerant networks is degraded due to intermittent connection and high latency. Additionally, socially selfish nodes in social networks refuse to provide message forwarding service since there are limited resources. To solve these problems, an improved routing algorithm based on the social link awareness is proposed. In this algorithm, multiple social features of the nodes’ behaviors are utilized to quantify the nodes pairs’ social links. The social links of the nodes pairs are computed based on their encounter history. These social links can be used to construct the friendship communities of the nodes. The intra-community and inter-community forwarding mechanisms are implemented to raise the successful delivery ratio with low overhead and decrease the transmission delay. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm shortens the routing delay and increases the successful delivery ratio, thereby improving the routing efficiency.     

容迟／容断网络路由技术研究

容迟／容断网络（DTN）由于其长延迟、高误码率及频繁断路等网络特性不满足互联网较短传输延迟、低误码率及存在端到端路径的基本假设,传统Internet体系结构和协议无法直接用于DTN。DTN路由机制可以按照连接的确定性分为确定性路由和随机性路由。确定性路由主要有基于树的路由、时空路由和修正的最短路径路由等方法;随机性路由主要有流行性路由、基于历史消息的路由、基于模型的路由、可控移动路由和基于编码的路由。DTN在游牧计算、军事战场通信、紧急营救及灾后重建方面具有广泛应用前景。     

Optimal Routing Control in Delay Tolerant Networks with Time-Varying Fees

Due to the uncertainty of the connections in delay tolerant networks, the source may need help from other nodes and make these nodes serve as relays to forward the messages to the destination. To further improve the performance, the source may also make these nodes serve as agents, which can help the source to make other nodes serve as relays. However, nodes may not be willing to help the source without any reward because of the selfish nature. This means that the source has to pay certain reward to the nodes that provide help. Furthermore, such fees may be varying with time. For example, if the nodes guess that the source is eager to transmit the message to the destination, they may ask for more reward. In addition, the reward that the source obtains from the destination may be varying with time, too. For example, the sooner the destination gets the message, the more reward may be. In such complex case, it may not be good for the source to request help all the time. This paper proposes a unifying theoretical framework based on Ordinary Differential Equations to evaluate the total reward that the source can obtain. Then, based on the framework, we study the optimal control problem by Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle and prove that the optimal policy confirms to the threshold form in some cases. Simulations based on both synthetic and real motion traces show the accuracy of the framework. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the performance of the optimal policy is the best through extensive numerical results.     

Routing Protocols in Delay Tolerant Networks: Comparative and Empirical Analysis

Wireless Personal Communications - A Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) is a network capable of handling long delays and data loss efficiently in various challenged scenarios and environments. Owing to...     

On Exploiting Dynamic Trusted Routing Scheme in Delay Tolerant Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - Delay tolerant network routing is characterized by sparsely or densely populated nodes. In such network routing with limited resource like buffer space is a...     

容迟网络中高传输性能随机路由协议

In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), establishing routing path from a source node to a destination node may not be possible, so the opportunistic routings are widely used. The energy and buffer constraints are general in DTNs composed of the mobile phones or Pads. This paper proposes a novel opportunistic routing protocol, denoted by Large Opporturioty (LAOP ), for the energy and buffer constrained DTNs. The objective of LAOP is to reach many receivers of a message with a small number of transmissions. By LAOP, the sender floods a message when the number of its neighbors is not less than a threshold. We compare the delivery performance of LAOP with other four widely used Delay or Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) routing protocols, Direct Delivery, Epidemic routing, SprayAndWait and PRoPHET and demonstrate that LAOP can improve the delivery performance and decrease the delivery latency simultaneously.     

一种基于QoS的空间延迟/中断容忍网络拥塞控制方法

为缓解网络拥塞对空间延迟/中断容忍网络产生的影响,该文提出一种基于QoS的网络拥塞控制算法。该算法包括接触拥塞判断和基于QoS的数据转发两种机制,分别从接触剩余可用容量和节点剩余存储空间两方面对每一段接触的拥塞程度进行预测,将接触划分为不同的拥塞等级。在计算路由时,以整段路径中所包含接触的最高拥塞等级为该路径的拥塞等级,并根据该拥塞等级发送不同优先级的数据。实验表明,基于QoS的拥塞控制算法可以提高低优先级数据的传递率并在节点存储空间不足时降低最高优先级数据的传递时延。     

基于社会特征的能量感知的容迟网组播协议

由于容迟网DTN(Delay-Tolerant Network)节点间连接的间歇性,节点只能依据机会性相遇转发数据.为此,提出基于社会特征的能量感知的容迟网络的组播SCEAM(Social Characteristics Energy-Aware based Multicast)协议.将社会网络思想引入DTN的路由协议,进而选择合适的转发节点传输数据,这充分利用了节点的长期和较稳定的社会特征知识进行决策转发数据.SCEAM协议就利用节点最重要的社会特征——中心度,并考虑节点能量两项信息选择转发节点.仿真数据表明,提出的SCEAM协议在满足数据传输率的要求下,能够支持更多的组播业务,与SDM协议相比,组播业务提高了近27％.     

Social group detection based routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

When implementing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, a key characteristic of the network is the mobility pattern of the nodes. Based on the application, nodes can follow semi-predictable patterns, such as the routes followed by Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, or the more strict schedules followed by aerial reconnaissance. Optimal routing schemes tend to take advantage of information regarding these patterns. In social environments, such as wildlife tracking or sending messages between humans, the devices and/or users will follow regular contact habits, tending to encounter social groups in which they participate. By identifying these groups, the patterns are used to optimize routing through a social environment. Dynamic Social Grouping (DSG), used to route messages strictly from a node to a basestation, is ideal for gathering sensor data and updating a shared data cache. In contrast, Dynamic Social Grouping-Node to Node (DSG-N²) is used to route messages between nodes, generally conventional communications. Both of these algorithms can be implemented ad null, meaning the devices initially have no information about their environment, and they work to reduce bandwith and delivery time while maintaining a high delivery ratio. In addition to presenting these two routing schemas, this article compares and contrasts two methods for estimating nodes’ delivery probabilities. The Contact Based Probability is based on encounters with other nodes, and the Performance Based Probability is based on the behavior of previous messages. The probability estimates were then validated with the Oracle analysis, which is based on knowledge of future events. This analysis indicated that DSG-N² probability estimates are comparable to the ideal.     

基于QoS的Ad Hoc路由协议综述

Ad Hoc网络是由一组带有无线收发装置的移动终端组成的一个多跳的临时性自治系统。随着人们对通信业务要求的不断提高，对带宽、时延、误码率等性能参数提出了不同程度的保障要求，因此要求Ad Hoc网络能够为某些业务提供服务质量（QoS）保障。但由于Ad Hoc网络无线链路的时变特性、网络拓扑结构的动态变化、移动终端设备电池容量受限等特点，使其相对于固定无线网络及有线网络提供有保证且稳定的QoS保障要困难得多，非常具有挑战性。本文对目前几种基于带宽和时延约束的QoS路由协议进行了介绍。     

QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

An H-hop interference model is proposed, where the transmission is successfully received if no other nodes that are within H hops from the receiver are transmitting on the same channel simultaneously. Based on this model. the interference-free property in the Time division multiple access Wireless mesh networks is analyzed. A heuristic algorithm with max-rain time slots reservation strategy is developed to get the maximum bandwidth of a given path. And it is used in the bandwidth guaranteed routing protocol to find a path for a connection with bidirectional bandwidth requirement. Extensive simulations show that our routing protocol decreases the blocking ratios significantly compared with the shortest path routing.     

Selective Message Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks

It is challenging to deliver messages in a network where no instant end-to-end path exists, so called delay-tolerant network (DTN). Node encounters are used for message forwarding. In this paper, we propose a DTN routing protocol SMART. SMART utilizes the travel companions of the destinations (i.e. nodes that frequently meet the destination) to increase the delivery opportunities while limiting message overhead to a bounded number. Our approach differs from related work in that it does not propagate node encounter history nor the delivery probabilities derived from the encounter history. In SMART, a message source injects a fixed number of message copies into the network to forward the message to a companion of the destination, which only forwards the message to a fixed number of the destination’s companions. Our analysis and simulation results show that SMART has a higher delivery ratio and a smaller delivery latency than the schemes that only use controlled opportunistically-forwarding mechanism and has a significantly smaller routing overhead than a pure flooding scheme.     

容迟与容断网络的研究进展

本文简要介绍了容迟与容断网络的基本特征、体系结构、应用领域和比较活跃的研究机构及其主要工作。采用分析和比较的方法,总结了容迟与容断网络路由协议和传输协议的主要研究成果,探讨了相关研究问题,分析比较了容迟与容断网络的仿真工具。最后总结并展望了容迟与容断网络进一步的发展方向。     

On Modeling The Impact of Selfish Behaviors on Limited Epidemic Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks

Transmission opportunity in delay tolerant network (DTN) is uncertain. To improve the routing performance, DTN tries to use every contact between nodes, and one classic policy is epidemic routing algorithm (ER). Due to much energy consumption, L-hop limited ER algorithm is proposed. However, such method does not consider the energy constraint for a specific node. To overcome this problem, we propose the L-count limited ER algorithm, in which each node forwards at most $L$ times. Numerical results show that this new algorithm can get better performance. Both of above algorithms need nodes to work in a cooperative way. However, due to selfish nature of nodes (individual selfishness and social selfishness), they may not be willing to help others. This paper proposes an accurate theoretical framework to evaluate the impact of these behaviors based on nonlinear differential equations (ODE). Simulations based on both synthetic and real motion traces show the accuracy of our theoretical model. Numerical results show that selfish nature can decrease the flooding performance in both algorithms. Under the same selfish behaviors, the performance is decreasing with the number of communities. The deviation of the performance between two algorithms is decreasing with the value of $L$ .     

一种基于能量感知的延迟容忍移动无线传感器网络多拷贝路由协议(英文)

The two-phase replication-based routing has great prospects for Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DTMSN) with its advantage of high message delivery ratio, but the blind spraying and the low efficiency forwarding algorithm directly influences the overall network performance. Considering the characteristic of the constrained energy and storage resources of sensors, we propose a novel two-phase multi-replica routing for DTMSN, called Energy-Aware Sociality-Based Spray and Search Routing (ESR), which imple...     

延迟容忍网络状态感知的路由策略研究

延迟容忍网络具有间歇连通的特点,这为数据传输提出了很大的挑战。目前的路由算法没有充分考虑节点的整个状态(位置、速度),该文提出了一种节点状态感知的路由策略SARM(Situation-Aware Routing Method)。SARM根据节点的状态估计它能把消息传送到汇聚节点的可能性,并把消息复制到那些比自身可能性大的节点上。该文根据消息的生存时间、剩余时间及复制次数提出了一种消息队列管理机制。仿真实验表明,SARM在不增加消息副本数量的情况下提高了传输成功率并降低了传输延迟。