Simulation Research of Opportunistic Routing Oriented to Network Metrics

The main objective of this paper is to design a opportunistic routing named ORONM (Opportunistic Routing Oriented to Network Metrics).In this paper, ORONM protocol for the message through to allocate resources to optimize certain routing indicators, such as forwarding success rate, the average transmission delays and cost than, etc. At last, we use QualNet to simulate the protocol, and compare with the traditional routing protocol, including Epidemic and Spray and Wait. The results demonstrate ORONM achieve better performance in the case of some nodes which have the same resources. In addition, this research of this paper can also provide references for other related works on opportunistic routing.