Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks from Routing to Cont
In the last few years, there has been extensive research activity in the emerging area of Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMANs). By considering the nature of intermittent connectivity in most real word mobile environments without any re
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Abbas Jamalipour • Yaozhou Ma
Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks from routing to content distribution foreword by H. Vincent Poor
Abbas Jamalipour The University of Sydney School of Electrical and Information Engineering Sydney New South Wales Australia [email protected]
Yaozhou Ma The University of Sydney School of Electrical and Information Engineering Sydney New South Wales Australia [email protected]
e-ISSN 2191-5776 ISSN 2191-5768 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1572-5 ISBN 978-1-4614-1571-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1572-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011939060 © The Author(s) 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Foreword
Wireless networking is one of the most advanced and rapidly advancing technologies of our time. The modern wireless era has produced an array of technologies of tremendous economic and social value and almost ubiquitous market penetration. Many of these technologies, such as mobile phones and WiFi networks, are based on so-called infrastructure networks, in which information is transferred wirelessly between an end-user’s device and an access point to a backbone network having a hierarchical control structure to manage information flow in the network. A more recently emerging network structure is that of an ad hoc network, in which end-user terminals communicate directly with one another in a peer-to-peer fashion without the benefit of a control structure provided by network infrastructure. Such networks are often formed in an ad hoc fashion (hence their name) as communicating devices appear in somewhat random locations. This type of structure presents new challenges in supporting efficient information flow, as protocols typically must rely on information forwarding through multiple intermediate devices, each of which acts autonomously, to deliver messages from source to destination. These challenges become even greater when the devices are moving, as the network topology then becomes dynamic. Even further challenges arise due to the fact that continuous endto-end connectivity cannot be guaranteed in such networks, opening up the iss
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