RDTN: An Agile DTN Research Platform and Bundle Protocol Agent

  • Authors:
  • Janico Greifenberg;Dirk Kutscher

  • Affiliations:
  • Dampsoft GmbH, Damp, Germany 24351;NEC Laboratories Europe, Network Research Division, NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany 69115

  • Venue:
  • WWIC 2009 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to developing and evaluating protocols and applications for Delay-Tolerant-Networking based on RDTN, a DTN bundle protocol agent (BPA) implementation written in Ruby. RDTN is light-weight and flexible so that it can be used in DTN application and protocol development as well as in research of DTN-related topics such as routing or convergence layers. RDTN provides a programming language-independent interface for client applications, an interactive environment for tests and a simulation mode for running multiple instances of the RDTN code in a simulated network environment. This paper describes the design of RDTN and its application to agile DTN protocol development.