Study of the impact of link availability on the performance of DTN routing protocols

Routing in Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN) acquires the attention and interest of researchers as being the most adequate solution for the problem of intermittently connection in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). Available simulation tools in DTN focus on evaluating performance of protocols in terms of network and application layers parameters. Unfortunately, implementation of physical layer parameters such as noise, fading, interference, link availability is not incorporated in those simulators. Our aim in this work is to study the impact of link interference as a parameter of the physical layer environment on the performance of DTN routing protocols. We demonstrate through the simulation how those protocols act against changes in network environment.

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