Abstract:
Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is a term invented to describe and encompass all types of long-delay, disconnected, disrupted or intermittently-connected networks, where mobility and outages or scheduled contacts may be experienced. ‘DTN’ is also used to refer to the Bundle Protocol, which has been proposed as the one unifying solution for disparate DTN networking scenarios, after originally being designed solely for use in deep space for the ‘Interplanetary Internet.’ We have evaluated the network to be used in underwater data extraction purposes.
Underwater terrain is very different from the terrestrial terrain, as it poses more amounts of obstructions where the normal protocols of networking tend to fail. DTN addresses this very problem through the hop-by-hop networking technique to extract data from deep sea and transport the data to the onshore sites for further analysis.
This paper has been aimed to provide the best possible solution model that can be designed using DTN to extract data from challenged underwater terrain.
