Editorial for special issue on social-based routing in mobile and delay-tolerant networks

摘要

For years, humans have been building a global commu nications network set eventually to bring all members of our species within range for potential communication and to support new types of networked applications. The totality of this network is growing, resulting in an increas ingly connected world. While the network's core - what we generally think of as the Internet - is highly connected and well suited for routing via conventional routing algo rithms, the network's expanding frontiers have infrastruc ture that suffers from intermittent connectivity and changes in topology that can be difficult or impossible to predict.