The main applications of delay tolerant network lie in space research, military, tactical and other security sensitive operations. In these and other applications, secure and energy efficient routing is an important issue in homogeneous and heterogeneous network. This chapter contributes a research work that demonstrates the design, simulation, testing and evaluation of secure, energy efficient and environment independent routing protocol for delay tolerant network. The proposed protocol not only proposed secure approach but also energy efficient approach in homogeneous and heterogeneous environment. The proposed approach utilize sectorization technique to achieve its goals of security, energy efficiency and environment independence. Described in this chapter is a detailed architecture, design, simulation, testing and evaluation of the proposed protocol. Having evaluated these protocols in various simulators, it is concluded that the proposed routing protocol utilized minimum energy and bandwidth and also provided secure transmission.
Transparent Network Protocol Testing and Evaluation
