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Mobile
communication has experienced an explosive growth since close to quarter
of a century. In particular, the mobile ad hoc network technology has
attracted significant attention in the last decade or so due its
challenging research problems, and span off such new research areas as
mesh-based mobile networks and sensor networks. What characterizes nearly
all of those mobile technologies is that during the exchange of
information between the source and destination terminals, there exists a
set of links which constitutes an end-to-end path over which the
information is communicated. In some application scenarios, however, the
connectivity between the mobile stations is poor due to very sparse
network conditions (low node density) or due to unstable connectivity
conditions (interference, fading, etc), and thus it is difficult to form
a well-connected mesh network for transmitting data through end-to-end
connections. In fact, even if there temporarily exists a path in the
network for some portion of the communication, it is likely that the terminals
will only be intermittently connected due to mobility. As a result, data
are delivered in a store-carry and forward paradigm in such networks.
Examples include vehicular networks, mobile sensor networks, deep space
communications, etc.
In this workshop we
aim to explore novel research issues related to Delay/Disruption-Tolerant
Mobile Networks (DTMN) and bringing together state-of-the-art contributions
in this emerging area.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New Network Architectures and
Applications
1. Mobile
sensor networks
2. Vehicular
networks
3. Heterogeneous
mobile networks
4. Delay-tolerant
applications
- Protocol Design and Optimization
1. Delay-tolerant
transport protocols
2. Mobility/disruption-aware
routing protocols
3. Reliability
and fault tolerance
4. Energy,
processing power and storage requirement
5. Mobility
modeling and mobility management
6. Localization
and location management
7. Nodal
synchronization
8. Security,
privacy and incentives for co-operation
9. Resource
allocation and QoS support
- Performance Analysis and
Evaluation
- Testbed
Implementation and Experimental Results New architecture design
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