A PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF VEHICULAR ADHOC DELAY TOLERANT NETWORK ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR DATA DISSEMINATION

In this research paper, here it is study four well-known DTN routing protocols: EPIDEMIC, Spray-and-Wait (SnW), PROPHET and MAXPROP and introduce a procedural form to present the protocols. Here it is measure the performance of the protocols in terms of packet delivery (PD), Delivery Cost, and Average Packet Delay. The research paper compares the protocols performance together with the results of optimal routing using real-life scenarios of vehicles and pedestrians roaming in a city. Also conduct several simulation experiments to show the impact of changing buffer capacity, packet lifetime, packet generation rate, and number of nodes on the performance metrics. The research paper is concluded by providing guidelines to develop an efficient DTN routing protocol. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to provide detailed performance comparison among the diverse collection of DTN routing protocols.