Networks with frequent and long duration partitions prevent common Internet protocols from working successfully. For protocols to work properly in these Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs), a new protocol layer was proposed that acts on top of the transport layer for the end-to-end exchange of messages (called bundles) taking advantage of scheduled, predicted, opportunistic or permanent connectivity. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a multicast extension to the DTN’s unicast PROPHET protocol. A multicast protocol is useful to reduce the number of copies of packets when they are sent to multiple destinations. We show by simulation that by using just one byte for transferring mobility information between nodes, a good clue about the region where mobile nodes are is given, which can be used by the multicast protocol to decide where to forward messages. Additionally, we show that if the number of contacts between nodes is above a minimum threshold, a pseudo multicast tree will exist, multicast works efficiently and message replications are minimized.
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Santiago, J., Casaca, A., Pereira, P.R. (2008). Non-Custodial Multicast over the DTN-Prophet Protocol. In: Miri, A. (eds) Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks II. WSAN 2008. IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 264. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09441-0_17
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