Quota-Based Multicast Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks

  • Authors:
  • Shou-Chih Lo;Nai-Wun Luo;Jhih-Siao Gao;Chih-Cheng Tseng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are special types of network environments that are subject to delays and disruptions. Most research efforts on the DTN routing problem are focused on unicast routing but not multicast routing. Moreover existing DTN multicasting approaches are not efficient and flexible. In this paper, we propose a new multicast routing approach which can not only achieve a high delivery rate but also adapt to network conditions. Most importantly, our proposed approach need not maintain group membership. In other words, any interested users can freely join and leave any multicast groups, and this feature suitably fits into DTN environments.