On the Potential of Enhancing Delay-Tolerant Routing Protocols via Age of Information

Georgios Kallitsis, Vasileios Karyotis () and Symeon Papavassiliou ()
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Georgios Kallitsis: School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece
Vasileios Karyotis: Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Tsirigoti Sq. 7, 49100 Corfu, Greece
Symeon Papavassiliou: School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: In this paper, we study the potential of using the metric of Age of Information (AoI) for enhancing delay-tolerant routing protocols. The latter have been proposed for alleviating the impact of long roundtrip time in networks operating in harsh environments, e.g., in distributed applications deployed in a desert/sparsely populated area without infrastructure, a space network, etc. Delay-tolerant routing protocols can prevent excessive packet timer expiration, but do not provide any packet delivery time guarantee. Thus, they are unsuitable for time-sensitive applications that are more intensely desired nowadays in the next generation networking applications. By incorporating AoI into the operation of delay-tolerant routing protocols, we aim at devising routing protocols that can cope with both long propagation times and challenges related to time-sensitivity in packet delivery. More specifically, in this work, we modify the operation of a well-known delay-tolerant routing protocol, namely FRESH, to make AoI-based packet forwarding decisions, aiming at achieving specific delay guarantees regarding the end-to-end delivery time. We investigate the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach compared to the traditional FRESH protocol. This work serves as a cornerstone for successfully demonstrating the potential of exploiting AoI in delay-tolerant routing and its applications.

Keywords: age of information; delay-tolerant networks; distributed routing protocols; packet delivery time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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