ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

A Flexible Multicast Routing Scheme for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339829,
        author={Lei Yin and Hui-mei Lu and Ke Long and Yuan-da Cao},
        title={A Flexible Multicast Routing Scheme for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks},
        proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-WCN},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={delay tolerant networks; multicast; routing},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339829}
    }
    
  • Lei Yin
    Hui-mei Lu
    Ke Long
    Yuan-da Cao
    Year: 2009
    A Flexible Multicast Routing Scheme for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks
    CHINACOM2009-WCN
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339829
Lei Yin1,*, Hui-mei Lu1,*, Ke Long1,*, Yuan-da Cao1,*
  • 1: School of Computer Science, Beijing Institute of Science and Technology, Beijing 100081 PRC
*Contact email: ylfego@gmail.com, luhuimei@tsinghua.org.cn, longke467@gmail.com, ydcao@bit.edu.cn

Abstract

Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DNTs) enables nodes to communicate by means of asynchronous sending messages without the need for an end-to-end path. In this paper, we study the problem of multicasting in DTNs. Several schemes have been proposed for multicast routing assuming the group of message receivers is known by sender, and the group members do not change during the process of message delivery. In this paper, we propose a Flexible Multicast Routing scheme, without any prior knowledge about the networks, which can handle multicast group members changing problem. Simulation results show that our routing strategies can achieve higher message delivery ratios and lower delivery latency than existing approaches.