An Efficient Transmission Method for Bulk Data Based on Network Coding in Delay Tolerant Network

Abstract

With nodes in Delay Tolerant Network(DTN) distributing sparsely and moving rapidly, they usually suffer from intermittent connections and communications, thus bringing about limited message forwarding opportunities. All these could lead to inefficient forwarding, low delivery, long latency and limited transmission capacity in performance. In this paper, efficient encoding and decision methods are presented and integrated into the DTN routing strategy. The custody-encoding-forwarding mode is designed by merging the random linear network coding into the DTN routing, together with the replica re-allocation and memory management, and built on that encoding scheme, the intra/inter flow adaptive collaborative network coding is elaborated to implement the fresh custody-decision-encoding-forwarding mode. A decision-making strategy based on Bayesian Network(BN) measures the ``degree'' in a specific generation in networks by taking comprehensive consideration of current and historical network conditions to enhance the network robustness and self-adaptivity. By evaluating the delivery, delay and overhead performance on ONE and MATLAB platforms, the effectiveness of proposed strategies is validated in the end.