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For close to quarter
of a century, mobile communication has experienced an explosive growth,
especially in the last decade or so. In particular, one area of mobile
communication networks, the ad hoc networks, has attracted significant
attention due to its challenging research problems. The ad hoc networks
technology has spun off new research areas, such 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 can be
exchanged. However, in some application scenarios, the connectivity
between the mobile terminals does not always allow for creation of such a
path. This could be due to very sparse network conditions (low node
density) or due to unstable connectivity conditions (interference,
fading, etc). Thus, in such scenarios, it would be often difficult, or
even impossible, to form a well-connected mesh network for transmitting
data through established 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. A simple example is that in a
WLAN environment, mobile users may be connected to an AP for a while
before moving out of its coverage, and then getting connected to a
different AP. More examples are found in environments without access to
infrastructure at all.
In this workshop
we aim to explore novel research issues related to intermittently connected mobile ad hoc
networks (ICMAN), which encompasses the scope of delay or disruption
tolerant networks (or DTN), and
bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New architecture design
- Novel transport and routing protocols
- Reliability and fault tolerance
- Energy, processing power and storage
requirement
- Mobility modeling and mobility management
- Localization and node synchronization
- Security,
privacy and incentives for co-operation
- Resource allocation and QoS support
- Performance analysis and evaluation
- Delay-tolerant applications
- Testbed implementation and experimental
results
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