MOHSQO: Multi objective harmony search algorithm based QoS optimization in delay tolerant networks
摘要
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have the ability to make communication possible without end-to-end connectivity using store-carry-forward technique. Efficient data dissemination in DTNs is very challenging problem due to compromising in Quality-of-Service (QoS) metrics such as delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and overhead ratio. That means, if an algorithm is design to find highest delivery ratio, then the algorithm does not bother about delay and overhead ratio. Researchers tried to improve the performance of network but, none of them had given satisfactory results to make a balance between all QoS metrics. In this paper, we have proposed a novel approach to optimize the performance of the network using Multi objective harmony search algorithm by creating a balance between all QoS metrics. Harmony search algorithm considers number of QoS parameters simultaneously. We have used characteristics of the node (Speed, residual energy, buffer capacity and encounters) to select the optimum forwarder node so that we can balance the performance metrics for network optimization. We have used ONE (Opportunistic Network Environment) simulator to simulate the proposed method and compared with exiting techniques. By analyzing the results, we can say that proposed method has the optimum performance.