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A Comprehensive Review of Energy Efficient Routing Protocols in Delay Tolerant Networks: Categorization, Insights, Comparative and Empirical Evaluation

Jul 2026 · Wireless personal communications · Vol 146, pp. 5219 - 5264 · 0 citations · 72 references

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This paper empirically analyses the existing routing protocols such as Epidemic, Spray and Wait, Prophet, Encounter Based Routing using different parameters, such as number of nodes, buffer size, etc., to analyse energy consumption in terms of overhead.

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