| Type | Scheme | Delivery Ratio | Latency | Resource Usage |
| Flooding Based | Epidemic routing [43] | Maximum | High | Maximum |
| Tree based Flooding [46] | Low | High | High | |
| Two hop relay [46] | Low | High | Low | |
| Spray and Wait [47] | High | Low | Low | |
| Direct Pass |
| Delivery Ratio | Latency | Resource Usage |
| Direct Delivery Routing [48] | Minimum | High | Low | |
| First Contact Routing [48] | Minimum | High | Low | |
| Probabilistic model based |
| Delivery probability | Power Consumption | Resource Usage |
| PROPHET [49] | High | Limited | Limited | |
| MaxProp [51] | High | Normal | Limited | |
| Plankton [52] | High | Limited | Limited | |
| CAR[53] | High | Limited | Limited | |
| Social Network Based |
| Community | Centrality | Similarity |
| Bubble-Rap [57] | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Lobby Influence [58] | Yes | Yes | No | |
| SimBet [60] | No | Yes | Yes | |
| PRO [61] | Yes | No | No | |
| CAS [62] | Yes | No | No | |
| SANE [63] | No | No | Yes | |
| Friendship based routing [64] | Yes | No | No |