The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)
To be held in conjunction with IEEE AINA 2009
http://www.aina-conference.org/2009/
May 29, 2009, Bradford, UK
With the explosive deployment of mobile wireless devices recently,
Opportunistic Networking is becoming an increasingly popular area
in networking research, in which the assumption of having end-to-end
paths between the source and the destination is relaxed. Such networks
fall into the fields of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and
delay-tolerant networking (DTN).Opportunistic Networks enable user
communication in an environment where disconnection and reconnection
are common and link performance is extremely dynamic. They are very
suitable to support the situation where network infrastructure has
limited coverage and users have "islands of connectivity". By taking
advantage of device mobility, information can be stored and forwarded
over a wireless link when connection 'opportunities' arise (e.g. an
appropriate network contact is met). In this view, traditional Internet
connectivity can be considered as a special case of connection
opportunity. With numerous emerging applications, Opportunistic
Networks allow a huge number of devices to communicate end-to-end
without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure and are very suitable
to support pervasive networking scenarios.
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