Deploying public surface transit to forward messages in DTN

• Published in: 2015 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) pp. 1329 - 1335
• Main Authors: Hadiwardoyo, Seilendria A., Santos, Alexandre J. T.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-08-2015
• Subjects: Cities and towns; Data models; Delay Tolerant Networks; Delays; Public Transit; Routing; Routing Protocol; Routing protocols; Vehicles
• ISSN: 2376-6492
• DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC.2015.7289275

Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) is a communication architecture enabling connectivity in a topology with unregular end-to-end network connection. DTN enables communication in environments with cross-connectivity, large delays and delivery time variations, and a high error rate. DTN can be used in vehicular networks where public transport get involved. This research aims to analyze the role of public transit as a DTN routing infrastructure. The impact of using public transit as a relay router is investigated by referencing the network performance, defined by its delivery ratio, average delay and overhead. The results show that public transit can be used as a backbone for DTN in an urban scenario using existing protocols. This opens insights for future researches on routing algorithm and protocol design.