Special Issue "Delay Tolerant Networks and Applications"
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 25347
Special Issue Editors
Interests: delay/disruption tolerant networks; vehicular networks; Internet of everything; smart cities
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Interests: vehicular communications; Internet of Things; eHealth technologies
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2. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Rua Marquês d’Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: mobility support for wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; smart cities; smart farming
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Special Issue Information
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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Keywords
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Disruption-tolerant networks (DTN)
- Opportunistic networks
- Network architecture
- Protocols
- Algorithms
- Prototype
- Testbed
- Simulation
- Modeling
- Application scenarios
- Applications