Designing Delay-Tolerant Applications for Store-and-Forward Networks

Network application engineers benefit from store-and-forward protocols, which are used in delay-tolerant networks (DTNs). DTNs are designed to overcome the challenges of current terrestrial internet networking, such as high latency and unreliable communication. The book provides a comprehensive overview of DTNs, including their motivation, design, and features. It also presents design patterns for developing and deploying delay-tolerant applications, such as caching content, performing open-loop autonomous control, and implementing distributed error correction.

Format: Hardback
Length: 340 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2020
Publisher: Artech House Publishers

This extensive resource delves into the advantages that network application engineers gain from employing store-and-forward protocols. It provides a comprehensive review of delay-tolerant networks (DTNs), exploring their motivation and design. It presents a series of design patterns, accompanied by examples, to facilitate the development and deployment of delay-tolerant applications. The rationale behind delay-tolerant applications as an evolution of conventional solutions to contemporary terrestrial internet networking challenges is presented. The book also highlights the similarities between internet architectures and DTN features, offering an overview of the history of DTNs, the architecture defining modern DTNs, and the Bundle Protocol transport mechanism. Furthermore, it identifies emerging, advanced networking concepts that necessitate delay tolerance and presents network design patterns as a general framework for reasoning about these concepts.

Delay tolerance is explained, along with its applications in caching content, performing open-loop autonomous control of nodes, annotating messages to reduce traffic demands, implementing distributed error correction, performing in-network data fusion, and operationalizing regional administration. The book also discusses special considerations unique to DTNs that must be accommodated by delay-tolerant applications, provides examples of using these patterns, and presents a case study for their successful deployment.

By leveraging store-and-forward protocols and adopting delay-tolerant networking principles, network application engineers can enhance the reliability, scalability, and resilience of their systems, enabling them to handle the demands of modern internet networking environments effectively.

Weight: 904g
Dimension: 186 x 269 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781630816285
Edition number: Unabridged ed