Evaluating Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network simulator by Termite

Plant monitoring by sensor devices and cameras contributes to having better environmental conditions for plant growth, irrigation, and productivity. However, transmitting the plant images or sensor data packets in a wide farm is not available over a pre-existing infrastructure network. A Delay Tolerant Network, which may be composed of human-centric devices (also known as a Pocket0-Switched Network) can transfer messages from farms to analysis centres via wireless technologies of devices. Selecting the appropriate device in each step can have effects on the performance of routing. Di?erent studies provide ideas for increasing the performance of DTNs. However, it is difficult to compare the performance of various routing algorithms, because they are designed for different scenarios and with different encounter patterns. To address the mentioned challenge of DTNs, PYDTN has been proposed to implement various algorithms of DTN in a single framework. Termite is an emulation testbed for encounter networks and can determine the topology evolution of the encounter network. Thus, PYDTN can use Termite to have a dataset of encounter network and evaluate different algorithms. Evaluating the simulator with realistic dataset before implementing them in farms can reduce the implementation cost and increase the performance of routing algorithms.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dwight Makaroff

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Partner:

University of Oslo

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Energy and Utilities; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Saskatchewan

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