IBR-DTN

This implementation of the bundle protocol [RFC5050] is designed for embedded systems like the RouterBoard 532A or Ubiquiti RouterStation Pro and can be used as framework for DTN applications.

The module-based architecture with miscellaneous interfaces, makes it possible to change functionalities like routing or storage of bundle just by inheriting a specific class.

Software

• Get the software

Features

• Bundle Protocol (RFC5050)
• Bundle Security Protocol (draft-irtf-dtnrg-bundle-security)
• Socket based API
• AgeBlock support and bundle age tracking (similar to draft-irtf-dtnrg-bundle-age-block-01)
• Scope Control Hop Limit Block support
• Experimental support for compressed bundle payload
• Bundle-in-Bundle support
• Basic IPv6 support
• Applications: dtnsend, dtnrecv, dtntrigger, dtnping, dtntracepath, dtninbox, dtnoutbox, dtnstream

Convergence Layer

• TCP/IP convergence layer draft-irtf-dtnrg-tcp-clayer-02
• TLS extension for TCP convergence layer by Stephen Röttger
• UDP/IP convergence layer draft-irtf-dtnrg-udp-clayer-00
• IP neighbor discovery based on draft-irtf-dtnrg-ipnd-01
• HTTP convergence layer by Robert Heitz (Java Servlet)
• IEEE 802.15.4 LoWPAN convergence layer by Stefan Schmidt

Routing Modules

• Routing with static connections
• Forward bundles on discovery
• Epidemic routing with bloomfilter
• Flooding routing scheme

Storage Modules

• Memory-based storage
• Persistent storage in file-system
• SQLite Storage

Public Node

For participation in the DTN-Bone we setup a special node running our DTN software.

• Geographic Location: Brunswiek, Germany, OH: 52.27321, 10.52521
• Contact Information: Johannes Morgenroth
• Node DNS name or IP address: dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (134.169.35.178)
  • Buffalo Terastation Pro
  • Implementation: IBR-DTN 0.6
  • EID: dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
  • CL: TCP, UDP
  • Ports:
    • 4556/tcp
    • 4556/udp
• Applications
  • DTN camera 1: dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/webcam01
  • DTN camera 2: dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/webcam02
  • Send a picture to the cameras and you get a reply with a picture.

Related stuff

• Doxygen documentation
• Mailing list
• Delay Tolerant Networking Research Group

Project members

Publications

If you use IBR-DTN in your work, please cite us. Below you can download the neccessary bibtex for your convenience.

• Sebastian Schildt, Johannes Morgenroth, Wolf-Bastian Pöttner and Lars Wolf: IBR-DTN: A lightweight, modular and highly portable Bundle Protocol implementation, in Electronic Communications of the EASST, Vol. 37, pages 1-11, 2011 (IBR-DTN-WASA, BibTeX, Slides)
• Michael Doering, Sven Lahde, Johannes Morgenroth and Lars Wolf: IBR-DTN: an efficient implementation for embedded systems, in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Challenged Networks, CHANTS 2008, San Francisco, California, USA, September 15, 2008, pages 117-120, 2008 (DLMW08, BibTeX)

Further Information

For further information please contact Johannes Morgenroth.