Delay Tolerant Networks and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Delay- and disruption-tolerant networking (DTN) has been an active research area due to its importance and wide range of countless applications in challenged scenarios and environments. DTNs consist of only mobile nodes, or both fixed nodes and mobile nodes moving around and occasionally coming into each other's proximity. Communication opportunities are usually short and sporadic, thereby making node-to-node communications extremely challenging and resulting in a very slow data dissemination process. Potential DTN applications include but are not limited to interplanetary networks, vehicular networks, networks for emergency response, disaster recovery, military operations, environmental sensing, tracking and monitoring applications, and communications in remote and rural areas and developing countries.

This Special Issue aims at bringing together researchers, academicians, scientists, and students to exchange their ideas, experiences, and latest research results on DTNs and their applications.

The topics of this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• Technologies and standards
• Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
• Data management and analytics
• Network performance
• Modeling and simulation
• Prototypes, testbeds, and case studies
• Applications
• Security, privacy, and trust
• Integration with infrastructure-based networks

Prof. Dr. Vasco N.G.J. Soares
Prof. Dr. Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Prof. Dr. João M. L. P. Caldeira
Guest Editors

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