PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MOFO BUFFER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE WITH DIFFERENT ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN DTN UNDER VARIABLE MESSAGE BUFFER SIZE

Anita Rani, Sangeeta Rani, Harminder Singh Bindra

Abstract: Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) uses the store-carry-forward scheme for the delivery of the messages, with this way data transmission can be successfully done despite of the absence of continuous end-to-end paths. The opportunities of message forwarding in such types of networks usually are limited due to the absence of contemporaneous paths. In such networks, the “store-carryforward” methodology is used for the transmission of the messages to be delivered to their intend destinations in a hop by hop manner. It arises many problems like how to schedule the messages, how to drop the messages in the buffer due to the impulsive nature of the nodes. It also arises many challengeable situations like short contact durations between the two nodes, limited storage capacity of nodes and so on. This paper evaluates the performance of MOFO buffer management technique with three routing protocols i.e. Epidemic, Prophet and MaxProp under variable message buffer sizes (5MB to 40MB). Such evaluation can improve the performance of the opportunistic networks by reducing the overhead ratio, enhancing the delivery rate, minimizing latency average and hop count average in a certain degree. So four performance evaluation metrics namely delivery probability, latency average, overhead ratio and hop count average are used in this study. This study uses ONE (Opportunistic Network Environment) simulator for the performance evaluation of the MOFO buffer management technique and routing protocols. The evaluation results shows that the performance of different protocols can benefit to optimizing the performance of delay tolerant networks in terms of delivery probability, Latency average, Overhead ratio and Hop count average of messages with the increase in message buffer size. Finally, this study suggested that which routing protocol is most suitable with MOFO buffer management technique.

Keywords: Delay Tolerant Networks, Buffer Management, Routing Protocols, MOFO, Epidemic, Prophet, MaxProp

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303015