Perception of delay tolerant network behavior with cognitive sonfication controller

Abstract

Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) allows communication in challenging and harsh environments where traditional networking fails and new routing and application protocols are required. For such networks, it is a constant task to keep track and a summary of their behavior because of the lack of network resources as they have less energy and memory to buffer transit messages. Therefore, it is important to exploit these resources efficiently. Several studies propose that accompanying visualization with sonification can ease some of the challenges of constant visual monitoring. In this paper, we simulate three different routing protocols and four movement models to analyze the energy consumption, the buffer occupancy and the interconnection time of the nodes under forty-eight different scenarios. Furthermore, we propose a cognitive sonification controller system and to enhance the network administrators in their network management task.