Title: Probabilistic bundle relaying scheme in a multi-copy vehicular delay tolerant network

Authors: Nidhi Sonkar; Sudhakar Pandey; Sanjay Kumar

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology, Chhattisgarh, Raipur, India ' Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology, Chhattisgarh, Raipur, India ' Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology, Chhattisgarh, Raipur, India

Abstract: Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) enable communications where connectivity issues like intermittent and sparse connection, variable and long delay, high latency and even no end-to-end connectivity exist. Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) used the concept of DTNs where vehicles are used for data transmission. A specific class of VDTN considers two types of node: stationary nodes and mobile nodes. Stationary nodes are deployed along roadsides and mobile nodes restricted to move over the road. In this paper, we have proposed a new routing scheme which is an extension of probabilistic bundle relaying scheme with multi-hop. In this routing we have used multi-copy, which allows multiple copies of message to be transmitted, and therefore the delivery ratio can be increased. We compared both the schemes to measure the benefits of multi-copy over the multi-hop routing scheme.

Keywords: DTN; delay tolerant network; VDTN; vehicular delay tolerant network; probabilistic bundle relaying scheme; VANET; vehicular ad-hoc network.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVICS.2019.099055

International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, 2019 Vol.4 No.1, pp.43 - 54

Received: 06 May 2018
Accepted: 28 Nov 2018
Published online: 12 Apr 2019 *

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