Dynamic Weight Dropping Policy for Improve High-Priority Message Delivery Delay in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network

Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network (VDTN) is a special case of Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) in which connectivity is provided by movement of vehicles with traffic prioritization to meet the requirements of different applications. Due to high node mobility, short contact time, intermittent connectivity, VDTNs use multi-copy routing protocols to increase message delivery rates and reduce the delay. However due to limited resources (bandwidth and storage capacity), these protocols cause the rapid buffer overflow and therefore the degradation of overall network performance. In this paper, we propose a buffer drop policy based on message weight by including traffic prioritization to improve the high priority messages delivery delay. Thus, the memory is subdivided into a high-weight queue and a low-weight queue. When the buffer is overflowing, and a new message arrives, the algorithm determines the message to be dropped in the queues considering that the current node is the destination of the message, the position of the current node with respect to the destination of the message and the age of the messages in the network.

@article{Théophile2018,
  title     = {Dynamic Weight Dropping Policy for Improve High-Priority Message Delivery Delay in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {9},
  number    = {10},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {GBALLOU Yao Théophile and GOORE Bi Tra and Brou Konan Marcelin},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091010},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091010}
}