Improved Prophet Routing protocol

[ashfaqdawood]

Implementation of Improved PRoPHET routing protocol as devised in
Seung Deok Han and Yun Won Chung, “An Improved PRoPHET Routing Protocol in Delay Tolerant Network,” The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2015, Article ID 623090, 7 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/623090.

The forwarding counter threshold and hop counter threshold are both kept at 5 after a comparative study resulting in best results at these thresholds.

[tk721]

You can already get the hop count (=forwarding count?) with Message.getHopCount() so I don't think you need to modify the Message or ActiveRouter classes.

[ashfaqdawood]

@tk721 both are different concepts, hop counter is the number of hops traversed by a particular message whereas a forwarding counter is the cumulative sum of the number of times the message was forwarded before reaching current node.
as per Han et al.

[julianofischer]

@AfqD, there is a way you can implement it without changin Message.java.
You can use message properties, like used by SprayAndWait routing module.