A Survey of Opportunistic Networks

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Ming Huang;Kun-chan Lan;Chang-Zhou Tsai

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AINAW '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We define an opportunistic network as one type of challenged networks where network contacts are intermittent or where link performance is highly variable or extreme. In such a network, there does not exist a complete path from source to destination for most of the time. In addition, the path can be highly unstable and may change or break quickly. Therefore, in order to make communication possible in an opportunistic network, the intermediate nodes may take custody of data during the blackout and forward it when the connectivity resumes. In this paper, we discuss some research challenges in an opportunistic network.