The time-correlated update problem

• Published in: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
• Main Authors: Reich, Joshua, Misra, Vishal, Rubenstein, Dan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2007
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1330555.1330569; https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1330555.1330569

Recent advances in the fields of sensor networks and mobile robotics have provided the means to place monitoring/sensing equipment in an increasingly wide variety of environments - a significant proportion of which can reasonably be expected to lack traditional network connectivity characteristics [5] [8]. Challenged networks, operating under significant sets of constraints in which disconnected paths and long delays are normal events, have come to be known as Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN) [2]. Some examples of environments in which DTN techniques may be required include remote or vast domains such as underground, underwater, outer-space, Arctic, and mountainous environments.