An Efficient Routing Protocol Based on Data Posting in an Opportunistic Network
Ji-Hyeun Yoon, Jaeho Choi · 2016
Recently, an Opportunistic network is evolved from a mobile ad hoc network. In an opportunistic network, the mobility and resource constraints of mobile nodes lead to network partitioning or performance degradation. Several forwarding schemes are proposed to forward with less traffic and delay. However, these schemes utilize too much private information to get high performance, or creates too much traffic because schemes are based on flooding. In this paper, we propose efficient routing scheme based on novel concept, data posting. In our scheme, data is posted to location, not a node to make higher probability to forward a data. Consequently, the proposed routing protocol achieves low traffic with increasing some delay. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme reduce the traffic up to 98% and delay increases up to 2.5 times higher than prophet, which is traditional forwarding scheme in opportunistic network.