Distributed Accountability in Democracy: Using MANETs and DTNs in the Face of Acts of Questionable Legality

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the performance of Epidemic and Wave DTN routing protocols in realistic scenarios involving communication about acts of questionable legality, highlighting their advantages and suggesting future research directions.

Contribution

It compares Epidemic and Wave routing protocols in sensitive communication scenarios, providing insights into their suitability and proposing future research avenues.

Findings

Epidemic routing may be more advantageous in certain scenarios.

Wave routing has specific benefits in other contexts.

The paper discusses future research directions.

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the behavior of the Epidemic and Wave DTN routing protocols in a realistic setting where individuals may wish to communicate with others for support regarding an act of questionable legality. We identify situations where using the Epidemic routing protocol may be more advantageous in such a scenario, and situations where using the Wave routing protocol may be more advantageous instead. We discuss other aspects of our findings in detail and suggest multiple approaches to future works.