Opportunistic Networks Fundamentals, Applications and Emerging Trends

The opportunistic network is an emerging and recent area of research. To make this research area more adaptable for practical and industrial use, there is a need to further investigate several research challenges in all aspects of opportunistic networks. Therefore, Opportunistic Networks: Fundamentals, Applications and Emerging Trends provides theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based research developments related to fundamentals, applications, and emerging research trends in opportunistic networks.

The book follows a theoretical approach to describe fundamentals to beginners and incorporates a practical approach depicting the implementation of real-life applications to intermediate and advanced readers. This book is beneficial for academicians, researchers, developers, and engineers who work in or are interested in the fields related to opportunistic networks, delay tolerant networks, and intermittently connected ad hoc networks. This book also serves as a reference book for graduate and postgraduate courses in computer science, computer engineering, and information technology streams.

1. Mobile-Code-Based Opportunistic Networking
2. Opportunistic Emergency Scenarios: An Opportunistic Distributed Computing Approach
3. Reactive and Proactive Routing Strategies in Mobile Ad Hoc Network
4. Secure Hierarchical Infrastructure-Based Privacy Preservation Authentication Scheme in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
5. Simulation Tools for Opportunistic Networks: How to Set Up and Simulate the ONE Simulator
6. Understanding Influencers of Adaptive Social-Aware Opportunistic Forwarding
7. Performance Analysis of AODV and DSDV Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Using OMNeT++
8. Message Forwarding and Relay Selection Strategies in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
9. Routing Techniques for Opportunistic Network
10. Blockchain Leveraged Node Incentivization in Cooperation-Based Delay Tolerant Networks
11. Evaluation of Energy Efficiency of Opportunistic Network Routing Protocols
12. Mobility Models in Opportunistic Networks
13. Opportunistic Routing in Mobile Networks
14. Security Issues in Opportunistic Networks

Dr. Anshul Verma received M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He has done Post-doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2017. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. He has also serve as faculty in Computer Science & Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India, from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include Opportunistic networks, Mobile ad-hoc networks, Distributed systems, Formal verification, and Mobile computing. He is serving as the Editor of Journal of Scientific Research, BHU, Varanasi, India.

Dr. Pradeepika Verma received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India, in 2020. She has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India, in 2013. Currently, she is working as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Prior to this, she has worked as faculty in Department of Computer Application at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. Her current research interests include Opportunistic networks, Natural Language Processing, Optimization Approaches, and Information Retrieval.

Prof. Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher received the M. Tech. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Sciences from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is presently working as Professor and Head in the Division of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), University of Delhi, India. He is also the Head of the Advanced Centre CAITFS, Division of Information Techno