A review on well-known routing methods in mobile intermittent networks

摘要

In this article, we have discussed about routing methods in mobile intermittent networks. In conventional data networks, assumption of existence of a path between sender and receiver is an essential hypothesis. In other words, if there is no path between sender and receiver, the whole process of routing and therefore transmission fails. However, in practice, there exist various scenarios that owing to mobility of nodes, the network is divided and interconnected frequently. In spite of this fact, for those applications that can tolerate long delays, transmission of messages via mobile nodes in such a condition is more probable. Routing methods in that environment works on the basis of store-and-forward. However, reasonable use of scarce resources in such networks, like Ad-hoc networks, is necessary. After reviewing some important key factors, we have compared two antithesis methods: Epidemic and PROPHET.