Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: Architectures and Protocols. Routing, broadcast, multicast. 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. Section 3: Enabling Technologies and Applications. 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.

Dr. Athanasios Vasilakos is with the University of Western Macedonia, Greece.

Dr. Yan Zhang is with the Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

Dr. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos is with ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) - which include terrestrial mobile networks, exotic media networks, ad-hoc networks, and sensor networks - are becoming more important and may not be well served by the current end-to-end TCP/IP model. This book provides a self-contained, one-stop reference for researchers and practitioners who are looking toward the future of networking. The text presents a systematic exploration of DTN concepts, architectures, protocols, enabling technologies, and applications. It also discusses various challenges associated with DTN. The author includes a wealth of illustrative material written in an accessible tone for easy understanding of the topics covered in the book.