Evaluating Forwarding Protocols in Opportunistic Networks: Trends, Advances, Challenges and Best Practices

Vishnupriya Kuppusamy, Udaya Miriya Thanthrige, Asanga Udugama and Anna Förster
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Vishnupriya Kuppusamy: Sustainable Communication Networks, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Udaya Miriya Thanthrige: Sustainable Communication Networks, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Asanga Udugama: Sustainable Communication Networks, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Anna Förster: Sustainable Communication Networks, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany

Future Internet, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-26

Abstract: A variety of applications and forwarding protocols have been proposed for opportunistic networks (OppNets) in the literature. However, the methodology of evaluation, testing and comparing these forwarding protocols are not standardized yet, which leads to large levels of ambiguity in performance evaluation studies. Performance results depend largely on the evaluation environment, and on the used parameters and models. More comparability in evaluation scenarios and methodologies would largely improve also the availability of protocols and the repeatability of studies, and thus would accelerate the development of this research topic. In this survey paper, we focus our attention on how various OppNets data forwarding protocols are evaluated rather than what they actually achieve. We explore the models, parameters and the evaluation environments and make observations about their scalability, realism and comparability. Finally, we deduce some best practices on how to achieve the largest impact of future evaluation studies of OppNets data dissemination/forwarding protocols.

Keywords: opportunistic networks; forwarding; data dissemination; evaluation methodology; simulation; OMNeT++; ONE; Adyton (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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