Assessment Model for Opportunistic Routing (LatinCom)

TL;DR

This paper introduces an assessment model with a new taxonomy and evaluation guidelines to fairly compare opportunistic routing solutions like Epidemic, PROPHET, and Bubble Rap under consistent metrics and scenarios.

Contribution

It proposes a comprehensive assessment framework that standardizes evaluation methods for opportunistic routing protocols, enabling fair performance comparisons.

Findings

Revisited existing routing protocols under a unified evaluation model

Identified performance differences among Epidemic, PROPHET, and Bubble Rap

Provided insights for designing more effective opportunistic routing solutions

Abstract

Due to the increased capabilities of mobile devices and through wireless opportunistic contacts, users can experience new ways to share and retrieve content anywhere and anytime, even in the presence of link intermittency. Due to the significant number of available routing solutions, it is difficult to understand which one has the best performance, since all of them follow a different evaluation method. This paper proposes an assessment model, based on a new taxonomy, which comprises an evaluation guideline with performance metrics and experimental setup to aid designers in evaluating solutions through fair comparisons. Simulation results based on the proposed model revisit the performance results published by Epidemic, PROPHET, and Bubble Rap, showing how they perform under the same set of metrics and scenario.