A Survey on Performance Analysis of Different Routing Protocols in VDTN

Sonal Bharatkumar Gandhi; Vyomal N. Pandya; Kinnar G. Vaghela

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A Survey on Performance Analysis of Different Routing Protocols in VDTN

Author(s):

Sonal Bharatkumar Gandhi , L.D.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING , AHMEDABAD; Vyomal N. Pandya, C. K. Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology; Kinnar G. Vaghela, L.D.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Keywords:

DTN, VDTN, ONE

Abstract:

VDTNs are DTNs where mobile nodes (vehicles) are communicate wirelessly to transfer data between nodes irrespective to connectivity issues. In low node density network, the traffic is sparse and direct end-to-end paths between nodes do not always available. Routing in such networks is very challenging due to absence of prior knowledge about network topology and because Contact opportunities between nodes are for limited duration. Routing is the major issue which has effect on overall performance of VDTN in terms of resource usage, data delivery, latency, etc. From last few years, so many routing protocols are proposed and classified for DTN/VDTN till date. In this paper mainly three VDTN routing protocols: Epidemic, Spray And Wait and PROPHET routing are analyzed and compared in terms of Delivery Probability, Overhead ratio and Average Latency. For Performance Analysis of these three protocols, various simulations are done in The ONE Simulator with Version of 1.4.1.