B.Poonguzharselvi and V.Vetriselvi, Anna University, India

Opportunistic networks are usually formed spontaneously by mobile devices equipped with short range wireless communication interfaces. The idea is that an end-to-end connection may never be present. Designing and implementing a routing protocol to support both service discovery and delivery in such kinds of networks is a challenging problem on account of frequent disconnections and topology changes. In these networks one of the most important issues relies on the selection of the best intermediate node to forward the messages towards the destination. This paper presents a mobile trace based routing protocol that uses the location information of the nodes in the network. Using the trace information, next hop is selected to forward the packets to destination. Data forwarding is done via the selected nodes. The effectiveness is shown using simulation.

Opportunistic network, mobile trace, routing protocol, delay tolerant network.