Performance Evaluation of Delay Tolerant Network in Heterogeneous Highly Dense Mobile Environment

Abstract: Delay tolerant network (DTN) is opportunistic network where each node searches best opportunity to deliver the message called bundle to the destination. DTN implements a store and forward message switching system by simply introducing another new protocol layer called the Bundle Layer on top of the transport layer. The bundle layer is responsible for storing and forwarding entire message in message segments called bundles between source node and destination node. This paper evaluates the performance of delay tolerant network layer in heterogeneous highly dense mobile node environment. The heterogeneous network is created with the help of stationary wired node and Base Station node by introducing dynamic dense Mobile node network. Mobile nodes are assigned with continuous mobility. Three parameters are suggested $\Delta$, $\Theta$ and $\lambda$ to correlate the results obtained using rigorous simulation. Results show that after some threshold values, dense feature about mobile node does not pretend the delay cause for delay tolerant network packets. Also, increase in number of mobile node and number of File Transfer connection rarely change the overall performance of the delay tolerant network.