Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols

The Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network (VDTN) is a special and challenging type of the Delay Tolerant Network because of its high mobility, frequent disconnections and nodal congestion features. These challenging features make it prone to congestion which leads to a considerable amount of message drop...

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Main Author: Oham, Chuka Finbars
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30777/
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description The Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network (VDTN) is a special and challenging type of the Delay Tolerant Network because of its high mobility, frequent disconnections and nodal congestion features. These challenging features make it prone to congestion which leads to a considerable amount of message drops in the network. To minimize the impact of congestion in the network, we designed and implemented the Congestion Aware Spray and Wait (CASaW) routing protocol. We varied the buffer sizes of the nodes and conducted multiple experiments using the VDTN routing protocols; the Congestion Aware Spray and Wait (CASaW), the Spray and Wait, the MaxProp, the Epidemic and the Prophet routing protocols. The results obtained after the experiments were used to evaluate the performance of the routing protocols in the congestion prone VDTN in terms of number of messages dropped and messages delivered. The results showed that the CASaW routing protocol performed fewer drops than all other evaluated VDTN routing protocol as the buffer size of nodes increases. This result implies that the CASaW routing protocol minimizes congestion in the VDTN and this means that more messages are delivered to the destination. This can increase the awareness of drivers in the vehicular environment and so improve road safety. We therefore recommend the implementation of the CASaW routing protocol for the VDTN so as to minimize congestion.
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spelling nottingham-307772017-10-19T15:05:51Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30777/ Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols Oham, Chuka Finbars The Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network (VDTN) is a special and challenging type of the Delay Tolerant Network because of its high mobility, frequent disconnections and nodal congestion features. These challenging features make it prone to congestion which leads to a considerable amount of message drops in the network. To minimize the impact of congestion in the network, we designed and implemented the Congestion Aware Spray and Wait (CASaW) routing protocol. We varied the buffer sizes of the nodes and conducted multiple experiments using the VDTN routing protocols; the Congestion Aware Spray and Wait (CASaW), the Spray and Wait, the MaxProp, the Epidemic and the Prophet routing protocols. The results obtained after the experiments were used to evaluate the performance of the routing protocols in the congestion prone VDTN in terms of number of messages dropped and messages delivered. The results showed that the CASaW routing protocol performed fewer drops than all other evaluated VDTN routing protocol as the buffer size of nodes increases. This result implies that the CASaW routing protocol minimizes congestion in the VDTN and this means that more messages are delivered to the destination. This can increase the awareness of drivers in the vehicular environment and so improve road safety. We therefore recommend the implementation of the CASaW routing protocol for the VDTN so as to minimize congestion. 2014-12-09 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30777/1/COHAM_ledata_temp_turnitintool_1077220976._13264_1411135828_104186.pdf Oham, Chuka Finbars (2014) Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title_full Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title_fullStr Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title_full_unstemmed Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title_short Congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
title_sort congestion control for vehicular delay tolerant network routing protocols
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30777/