IBR-DTN: A lightweight, modular and highly portable Bundle Protocol implementation

2015/11/03 by Sebastian Schildt, Johannes Morgenroth, Schildt, Sebastian +5
Computer Science · #Caching and Content Delivery #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks

paper · doi:10.14279/tuj.eceasst.37.512

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Abstract

In this paper we present IBR-DTN, a lightweight, modular and portable Bundle Protocol implementation and DTN daemon. IBR-DTN is especially suited for embedded platforms, which allows to leverage the benefits of a fully compliant Bundle Protocol daemon in cost sensitive distributed sensing applications. We line out IBR-DTN's extensible software architecture and introduce the modules included in the standard IBR-DTN distribution. To give an impression of the performance that can be expected when using IBR-DTN, we perform a series of benchmarks and compare the outcome with DTN2 performance, the reference implementation of the Bundle Protocol.

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