Delay Constraint Adaptive Routing Based on Seed Spray in Opportunistic Networks ?

Opportunistic networks are sparse wireless networks which have no complete path from the source to the destination most of the time. Many applications require the support of delay constrained routing mechanism which can provide acceptable and resilient services in the challenged environments. We proposed Adaptive Seed Spray (ASS) to achieve the delay constraint with low cost in dynamic opportunistic networks. ASS will estimate the routing cost in source node, and use a small number of seed nodes to spray message copies in order to reduce redundant copies. Furthermore, ASS will make spray decisions in relay nodes which have the latest information of the networking conditions. Simulation results have shown that ASS has prominent superiority in routing cost and adaptability, and it is an efficient delay-bounded multi-copy routing protocol for opportunistic networks especially for dynamic conditions.