A novel contact prediction-based routing scheme for DTNs

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• 作者：Lichen Zhang ; Xiaoming Wang ; Junling Lu ; Meirui Ren ; Zhuojun Duan and Zhipeng Cai
• 刊名：Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：1
• 全文大小：692K
• ISSN：2161-3915

文摘

Delay/disruption tolerant networks (DTNs) make opportunistic communications by utilising the mobility of nodes. The characteristics of high mobility of nodes and high dynamicity of network topology result in an absence of instantaneous end-to-end path from any source to a destination and thus make routing a challenge in DTNs. To deal with this issue, researchers have investigated a variety of routing schemes for DTNs based on the prediction of future contacts, in which node mobility is explored and used. However, the previous works did not consider the instant contact information such as the last contact duration time and the instant separation time since the last contact whilst making routing decisions, leading to less prediction accuracy of future contacts and thus worse routing performance. In this paper, a novel contact prediction-based routing scheme is proposed for DTNs to increase delivery ratio by considering the instant contact information. Specifically, to predict the contact probability of two nodes accurately, the statistical contact information, the instant contact information and the contact transitivity are comprehensively considered. The simulation evaluations show that the proposed contact prediction-based routing substantially improves delivery ratio and reduces delivery latency and delivery overhead compared with traditional DTN routing schemes. Copyright