Performance Evaluation of Social-Aware Routing Protocols in an Opportunistic Network
M. Muntasir Rahman, Md. Sharif Hossen · 2018
This chapter evaluates the performance of the three aforementioned social-aware routings, namely, social-aware content-based opportunistic routing protocol (SCORP), dLife, and dLifeComm. It shows the simulation tool and environmental setup. SCORP considers the daily social interactions and interests of users to ensure better delivery in dense regions, i.e., urban areas. SCORP is based on a utility function that reflects the probability of encountering nodes with a particular interest among the ones that have similar daily social functions. The dLife routing protocol considers the dynamism of users&s; behavior in their daily life routines. It takes the trace of social interaction for further data transmission. The dLifeComm routing protocol is the updated version of dLife, where it takes also the trace of social interaction and their interest for better performance than dLife. The dLifeComm social-aware routing protocol keeps track of the social interest and interaction history to gain higher performance in the intermittently connected network.