Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is a new area of research to improve network communication when connectivity is periodic, intermittent, and/or prone to disruptions. A seminar on DTN was held at at Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, from 3 to 6 April 2005. Researchers from different fields discussed their approaches to dealing with delays, intermittent connectivity, and the potential non-existence of an end-to-end path in a number of different environments. The two major areas identified were: (1) dealing with delay and disruption in the present Internet in the context of wireless, mobile, and nomadic communications, supporting existing applications and (2) addressing new applications with a focus on exploiting discontinuous connectivity and opportunistic contacts for asynchronous communications. This article briefly reviews the seminar presentations and discussions.
@InProceedings{brunner_et_al:DagSemProc.05142.2, author = {Brunner, Marcus and Eggert, Lars and Fall, Kevin and Ott, J\"{o}rg and Wolf, Lars}, title = {{05142 Executive Summary – Disruption Tolerant Networking}}, booktitle = {Disruption Tolerant Networking}, pages = {1--4}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2005}, volume = {5142}, editor = {Marcus Brunner and Lars Eggert and Kevin Fall and J\"{o}rg Ott and Lars Wolf}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05142.2}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-3506}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.05142.2}, annote = {Keywords: Delay-tolerant networking, disconnected operation, mobility, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, interplanetary Internet} }
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