The quest for a killer app for opportunistic and delay tolerant networks: (invited paper) Export

@inproceedings{lindgren:quest, abstract = {Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has attracted a lot of attention from the research community in recent years. Much work have been done regarding network architectures and algorithms for routing and forwarding in such networks. At the same time as many show enthusiasm for this exciting new research area there are also many sceptics, who question the usefulness of research in this area. In the past, we have seen other research areas become over-hyped and later die out as there was no killer app for them that made them useful in real scenarios. Real deployments of DTN systems have so far mostly been limited to a few niche scenarios, where they have been done as proof-of-concept field tests in research pro jects. In this paper, we embark upon a quest to find out what characterizes a potential killer applications for DTNs. Are there applications and situations where DTNs provide services that could not be achieved otherwise, or have potential to do it in a better way than other techniques? Further, we highlight some of the main challenges that needs to be solved to realize these applications and make DTNs a part of the mainstream network landscape.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lindgren, Anders and Hui, Pan}, booktitle = {CHANTS '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Challenged networks}, citeulike-article-id = {6089209}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1614222.1614233}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1614222.1614233}, doi = {10.1145/1614222.1614233}, isbn = {978-1-60558-741-7}, keywords = {applications, dtn, opportunistic-networks}, location = {Beijing, China}, pages = {59--66}, posted-at = {2009-11-09 15:26:01}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {The quest for a killer app for opportunistic and delay tolerant networks: (invited paper)}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1614222.1614233}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - lindgren:quest L3 - citeulike-article-id:6089209 N2 - Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has attracted a lot of attention from the research community in recent years. Much work have been done regarding network architectures and algorithms for routing and forwarding in such networks. At the same time as many show enthusiasm for this exciting new research area there are also many sceptics, who question the usefulness of research in this area. In the past, we have seen other research areas become over-hyped and later die out as there was no killer app for them that made them useful in real scenarios. Real deployments of DTN systems have so far mostly been limited to a few niche scenarios, where they have been done as proof-of-concept field tests in research pro jects. In this paper, we embark upon a quest to find out what characterizes a potential killer applications for DTNs. Are there applications and situations where DTNs provide services that could not be achieved otherwise, or have potential to do it in a better way than other techniques? Further, we highlight some of the main challenges that needs to be solved to realize these applications and make DTNs a part of the mainstream network landscape. CY - Beijing, China SN - 978-1-60558-741-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 66 TI - The quest for a killer app for opportunistic and delay tolerant networks: (invited paper) PB - ACM T2 - CHANTS '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Challenged networks SP - 59 KW - applications KW - dtn KW - opportunistic-networks AU - Lindgren, Anders AU - Hui, Pan PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1614222.1614233 ER -