Delay-tolerant Networking - Research Efforts

Research Efforts

Various research efforts are currently investigating the issues involved with DTN:

• The The Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group.
• The Technology and Infrastructure for Developing Regions project at UC Berkeley
• The Bytewalla research project at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH
• The KioskNet research project at the University of Waterloo.
• The DieselNet research project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.
• The ResiliNets Research Initiative at the University of Kansas and Lancaster University.
• The Haggle EU research project.
• The Space Internetworking Center EU/FP7 project at the Democritus University of Thrace.
• The N4C EU/FP7 research project.
• The WNaN DARPA project.
• The EMMA and OPTRACOM projects at TU Braunschweig
• The DTN networking at Helsinki University of Technology.
• The SARAH project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).
• The development of the DoDWAN platform at the University of South Brittany.
• The CROWD project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).
• The PodNet project at KTH Stockholm and ETH Zurich.

Some research efforts look at DTN for the Interplanetary Internet by examining use of the Bundle Protocol in space:

• The Saratoga project at the University of Surrey, which was the first to test the bundle protocol in space on the UK-DMC Disaster Monitoring Constellation satellite in 2008.
• NASA JPL's Deep Impact Networking (DINET) Experiment on board the Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft.
• BioServe Space Technologies, one of the first payload developers to adopt the DTN technology, has utilized their CGBA (Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus) payloads on board the ISS, which provide computational/communications platforms, to implement the DTN protocol.
• NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot From International Space Station