Performance of Efficient Routing Protocol in Delay Tolerant Network: A Comparative Survey

Nowadays, the research and application about delay-tolerant network (DTN) have become more and more popular. A communications network that is capable of storing packets temporarily in intermediate nodes, until the time an end-to-end route is reestablished or regenerated is known as a delay tolerant network/s, in short, DTN.Routing of the packets in DTN is based on store-carry-and forward paradigm. When a node receives a message but no availability of paths towards destination node, the message should be buffered in the current node and wait for opportunities to encounter other nodes. This paper aims to detail basic & general aspects specific to information needs in DTN routing and present classification chart. We discuss some detail of routing issues and classifications of routing protocols. Routing is one of the major issues affecting the overall performance of DTN networks in terms of resource consumption, data delivery. Over the past few years a number of routing protocols have been proposed for DTN networks. In this paper mainly three DTN routing protocols Epidemic, PROPHET and Spray and Wait Routing protocols are discussed.