Volume 3 - Issue 1 - 2
Energy-based Performance Evaluation of Various Routing Protocols in Infrastructure-less Opportunistic Networks
- Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher
Information Technology, NSIT, University of Delhi New Delhi, India
dhurandher@rediffmail.com
- Deepak Kumar Sharma
Computer Engineering, NSIT, University of Delhi New Delhi, India
dk.sharma1982@yahoo.com
- Isaac Woungang
Computer Science, Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada
iwoungan@scs.ryerson.ca
Keywords: Opportunistic networks (Oppnets), Opportunistic routing, The ONE (Opportunistic Network) simulator.
Abstract
Opportunistic Networks (Oppnets) provide the communication facilities in the network scenarios
where the end-to-end path between the source and the destination never exists or may last only for
an unpredictable and very short period of time. The disconnections and re-connections between the
nodes are very common in Oppnets. Therefore, routing in these types of networks is a very challenging
task and it is different from that in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), which assumes
a complete path from the source to the destination before the delivery of a message. As the nodes
does all the computations for next hop selection in infrastructure-less Oppnets, a lot of battery power
gets consumed which reduces the network lifetime. Thus a proper energy efficient routing protocol
should be selected for message passing in these types of networks. In this paper, we have simulated,
investigated and compared the performance of various already existing routing protocols for
infrastructure-less Oppnets in terms of energy consumption. These protocols have been compared
with each other by using various performance evaluating factors like average residual energy, number
of nodes that become dead after the simulation run of the protocol.