Call for Book Chapter

Title: Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications

(to be published by http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/ Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group)

Proposal Deadline: 20 January 2009.

Introduction

Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) arises primarily as a result of various forms of host and router mobility, but may also come into being as a result of disconnection due to power management or interference. Examples of such networks include:

* Terrestrial Mobile Networks: In many cases, these networks may become un-expectedly partitioned due to node mobility or RF interference. In other cases, the network may never have an end to end path and may be expected to be partitioned in a periodic and predictable manner. * Exotic Media Networks: Exotic communication media includes near-Earth satel-lite communications, very long-distance radio links (e.g. deep space RF communications with light propagation delays in the seconds or minutes), communication using acoustic modulation in air or water, and some free-space optical communications. These systems may be subject to high latencies with predictable interruption (e.g. due to planetary dy-namics or the passing of a scheduled ship), may suffer outage due to environmental conditions (e.g. weather), or may provide a predictably available store-and-forward network service that is only occasionally available (e.g. low-earth orbiting satellites that "pass" by one or more times each day). * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks: These networks are frequently characterized by extremely limited end-node power, memory, and CPU capability.

Recommended Topics (not limited to)

* Routing, broadcast, multicast * Medium Access Control * Self-x properties, i.e. self-organization, self-management, self-healing and self-protection * Economic approaches and social model * Learning techniques * Design, analysis and simulation * Network coding * P2p * Mobility * Robustness and stability * Security, immunity and resilience * Auto-configuration, authentication and trust management * Bio-computing inspired approaches * Generic network-level service composition at run-time * Context Transparency and Awareness * Sensor networks-based DTN * Ambient, invisible, implicit, and adaptive computing * Context-aware computing and location-based services and applications * Testbed, prototype and experiment * Challenges, visions and roadmap

Important Dates

You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal discribing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter summary, table of content, and contact authors. Estimatedly, each chapter should has about 35 pages with 12 font size, double-space format. Proposal Deadline: 20 January 2009 Notification of proposal acceptance: 31 Jan. 2009 Full chapter submission: 30 April 2009

Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book.

Contact

Please make correspondence and chapter submissions to:

Dr. Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Email: vasilako[AT]ath.forthnet.gr

Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org

Dr. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos ETH Zurich, Switzerland Email: spyropoulos[AT]tik.ee.ethz.ch

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