Experimental Evaluation of Routing Schemes for Intermittently Connected Wireless Mobile Networks
Published in Wireless Personal Communications, 2015
Recommended citation: Johari, S.R., Gupta, N. & Aneja, S. (2015). " Experimental Evaluation of Routing Schemes for Intermittently Connected Wireless Mobile Networks. " Wireless Pers Commun 87, 897–921 (2016). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11277-015-3109-4
Abstract
Several routing schemes have been proposed for intermittently connected wireless mobile networks. The effectiveness of these routing schemes is mostly evaluated using the metrics: messages delivered, message traffic and delay suffered by delivered messages. These metrics provide very limited evaluation of routing schemes. Even very simple and well known attributes like time and space complexity of routing schemes were not measured for evaluating the quality and applicability of routing schemes. Therefore, many significant aspects such as, resource utilization, efficiency in terms of space and time, quality of service parameters and security aspect etc. of routing schemes get overlooked. In this paper, we present the results of experimental evaluation, through simulation, of routing schemes for intermittently connected wireless mobile networks such as Delay Tolerant Network. We evaluated four routing schemes, based on different principles, namely First contact, Epidemic, Spray and wait and Dynamic Social Grouping, on parameters, such as, resource utilization, efficiency, performance and security. We found Spray and wait routing scheme performed better than others, both in terms of resource utilization and efficiency (time and space).