Application Of Delay Tolerant Network Essay

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Abstract A class of wireless network is represented by Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) that experience regular and long lasting partitions due to light distribution of nodes in the network topology. In DTN, store-carry-forward mechanism is used for packets routing. In this paper, for performance evaluation three popular routing protocols are used namely; Epidemic, Direct Delivery and First contact. The performance of these routing protocols generates a new subarea movement model based on the splitting of network simulation area. Keywords: Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), The ONE (Opportunistic Network) simulator, Movement Models, Routing protocols, TTL (time to live). 1. Introduction Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) represents a class of wireless networks that has no connected path between a source and the destination. The network is partitioned into several sub-networks in DTN. DTNs represent a class of wireless systems with no infrastructure and support the functionality of networks experiencing recurrent and long lasting partitions. Delay tolerant networking [1] has received major attention in recent years. Since in DTN, the destination path is not connected, so the main purpose here is to find the intermediate nodes for routing the packets [2, 3]. When two nodes come in contact with each other, they may exchange the packets and such an occasion is known as encounter. In DTN, store-carry-forward model is used for packet delivery. According to this model, each node along the
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