Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks based message forwarding algorithm for rural Internet connectivity applications

Abstract

Rural networking connectivity is a very dynamic and attractive research field. Nowadays big IT companies like Google and Facebook are working to help connect all these rural disconnected people to Internet. Our research work is another effort in this direction. We are building a new solution based on previously tested ideas that can bring no real-time Internet connectivity to rural users using Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking technologies. The advantage of our solution is that it is a low cost technology that uses locally available infrastructure to reach even the most remote towns. This paper introduces the problem, the current and previous efforts to solve it, and describes our solution, mathematically and algorithmically. Simulation results show that our algorithm delivers more messages than two of the most known DTN routing protocols for this rural connectivity scenario.