Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: from Routing to Content Distribution

In the last few years, there has been extensive research activity in the emerging area of Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMANs). By considering the nature of intermittent connectivity in most real word mobile environments without any restrictions placed on users’ behavior, ICMANs are eventually formed without any assumption with regard to the existence of a end—to—end path between two nodes wishing to communicate. It is different from the conventional Mobile Ad Hoc Networ...