A Verification of Social Behavior in Delay Tolerant Network

Abstract

Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) system provides communication services under the challenging network condition where a communications infrastructure became unusable. In recent years, DTN systems which forward a message by mobile phone users, has attracted attention. In this DTN systems, mobile phone users forward a messages by combining users' physical movement and mobile phone's wireless network technologies. However, mobile phone users' social behavior denial users' communicate and influences the performance of DTN. Now, social behavior is mobile phone users' behavior that denial required communication with other users in order to save own storage/power resources or avoid risk of communications. In this study, we model the DTN system considering users' social behavior, and evaluate the message delivery delay and message delivery rate of the system.