An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans

Along with the fast development of the marine economy and ever-increasing human activities, handy and reliable marine networking services are increasingly required in recent years. The ocean faces challenges to support cost-effective communication due to its special environments. Opportunistic netwo...

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Main Authors: Lige Ge, Shengming Jiang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/607
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description Along with the fast development of the marine economy and ever-increasing human activities, handy and reliable marine networking services are increasingly required in recent years. The ocean faces challenges to support cost-effective communication due to its special environments. Opportunistic networks with easy deployment and self-curing capability are expected to play an important role to adapt to such dynamic networking environments. In the literature, routing schemes for opportunistic networks mainly exploit node mobility and local relaying technologies. They did not take into account the impact of node behaviors on encountering opportunities and in case of no further relaying, network performance would be greatly degraded. To solve the problem, we propose an efficient routing scheme based on node attributes for opportunistic networks. We first construct delivery competency to predict the further relay nodes. Then a forwarding willingness mechanism is introduced to evaluate the relaying probability combining device capacity and movement behaviors of nodes. Finally, the utility metric is used to make decisions on message forwarding. The results show that the proposed scheme improves network performance in terms of delivery ratio, average latency, and overhead ratio as compared to other schemes.
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spelling doaj.art-3d892154f2024a5689a661a0061998ad2023-11-23T10:54:32ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002022-04-0124560710.3390/e24050607An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in OceansLige Ge0Shengming Jiang1College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, ChinaAlong with the fast development of the marine economy and ever-increasing human activities, handy and reliable marine networking services are increasingly required in recent years. The ocean faces challenges to support cost-effective communication due to its special environments. Opportunistic networks with easy deployment and self-curing capability are expected to play an important role to adapt to such dynamic networking environments. In the literature, routing schemes for opportunistic networks mainly exploit node mobility and local relaying technologies. They did not take into account the impact of node behaviors on encountering opportunities and in case of no further relaying, network performance would be greatly degraded. To solve the problem, we propose an efficient routing scheme based on node attributes for opportunistic networks. We first construct delivery competency to predict the further relay nodes. Then a forwarding willingness mechanism is introduced to evaluate the relaying probability combining device capacity and movement behaviors of nodes. Finally, the utility metric is used to make decisions on message forwarding. The results show that the proposed scheme improves network performance in terms of delivery ratio, average latency, and overhead ratio as compared to other schemes.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/607opportunistic networksnode attributesdelivery competencyforwarding willingness
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opportunistic networks
node attributes
delivery competency
forwarding willingness
title An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans
title_full An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans
title_fullStr An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans
title_full_unstemmed An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans
title_short An Efficient Routing Scheme Based on Node Attributes for Opportunistic Networks in Oceans
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node attributes
delivery competency
forwarding willingness
url https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/607
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