Call for Chapters

The opportunistic network is a result of intensive research of so many years on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET), therefore it is called an extension of MANET. Like MANET, an opportunistic network is also an autonomous, dynamic, decentralized, and infrastructure-less network that is made of wireless mobile devices. It is also an ad-hoc because the network is formed dynamically “on the fly” and does not have the pre-existing infrastructure, unlike infrastructure-full networks where routers and access-points are used to manage network information. Instead, each node acts as an end node (source or destination) as well as a router (forward data of other nodes). The next forwarder of the data is determined dynamically based on network connectivity and the routing protocol in use. Unlike MANET, opportunistic networks consider several wireless networks’ properties, such as nodes mobility, disconnection of nodes, network partitions, links’ instability, as advantages rather than exceptions. This often results in the design of opportunistic networks significantly more complex and challenging than MANET.

In opportunistic networks, mobility of the nodes is used as a way for the communication between disconnected clusters of nodes rather than an exception that should be overcome. It does not create a complete path between a source and destination during a transmission. There is no need for source and destination should be connected to the same network at the same time. Despite this, messages can be exchanged between source and destination by using store-carry-and-forward approach in which intermediate nodes store messages in the absence of better forwarding nodes, carry messages from one location to other, and forward to the other nodes those have better opportunity to bring the messages closer to the destination. This approach of message transmission in highly intermittent connected ad-hoc wireless networks became more favorable than the traditional MANET paradigm.

However, the opportunistic network is an emerging and recent area of research, still many industrial applications have been developed based on this network. The opportunistic network is made of heterogeneous mobile devices that exist everywhere, due to the widespread use of cellular and pervasive mobile devices by the people, and are emerging day by day. Hence, many more concrete futuristic mobile applications can be developed by adopting the opportunistic networking paradigm. 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, this book will provide theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation based research developments related to fundamentals, applications, and emerging research trends in opportunistic networks.

This book will be beneficial for academicians, researchers, developers, engineers, and practitioners those working in or interested in the fields related to opportunistic networks, delay tolerant networks, intermittently connected ad-hoc networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks. This book is expected to serve as a reference book for developers and engineers working in the mobile application development and telecommunications industries, and for a graduate/postgraduate course in computer science and engineering/information technology.

Table of Contents:

The edited book will include chapters on the following topics, but are not limited to:

· Introduction of Opportunistic Networks

· Types of Opportunistic Networks

· Delay Tolerant Networks

· Intermittent Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

· Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)

· Architectures of Opportunistic Networks

· Infrastructure-less Opportunistic Networks

· Infrastructure-based Opportunistic Networks

· Issues and Challenges in Opportunistic Networks

· Performance Measurements

· Mobility Models in Opportunistic Networks

· Routing Protocols of Opportunistic Networks

· Context-oblivious Routing Protocols

· Partially Context-aware Routing Protocols

· Fully Context-aware Routing Protocols

· Coding Based Routing Protocols

· Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols

· Route Optimization Techniques

· Performance Evaluation of Route Optimization Techniques

· Energy Conservation Approaches

· Quality of Service Approaches for Opportunistic Networks

· Security in Opportunistic Networks

· Architecture of Security in Opportunistic Networks

· Trust Models of Security

· Attacks in Opportunistic Networks

· Intrusion Detection and Prevention Techniques

· Simulation Software and Testbeds for Opportunistic Networks

· Custom Event Driven Simulators

· Custom Time Driven Simulators

· Applications of Opportunistic Networks

· Case Studies of Opportunistic Networks

· Future Trends and Research Directions

Submission Procedure:

Researchers are invited to submit Chapter’s Abstract and Full Chapter directly to Dr. Anshul Verma on Email-ID: anshulverma87@gmail.com

Abstract and Chapter preparation Guidelines:

The chapter abstract submission must include chapter’s title, authors’ name, affiliations, email-ids, chapter’s abstract (approximate 200 to 250 words), at least 6 keywords, and tentative table of contents. The full chapter should be submitted in MS word or Latex format (Font: Times New Roman, Size: 12, Line spacing: 1.15), and headings, sub-headings, figures, tables and equations should be numbered accordingly. All interested authors must consult the attached manuscript preparation guidelines.

Authored Disk (Typeset) Manuscripts:

Text Preparation Instructions for Authored Disk Manuscripts in Microsoft Word (.pdf)

Text Preparation Instructions for Authored Disk Manuscripts in LaTeX (.pdf)

Art Preparation Instructions for Authored Disk Manuscripts (.pdf)

Publisher:

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, U.S.A.

Important Dates:

Last date of Chapter Abstract submission: 20 August 2020

Acceptance notification of Chapter Abstract: 31 August 2020

Full Chapter submission by accepted authors: 31 October 2020

Acceptance/revision notification of Full Chapter: 15 November 2020

Final Full Chapter submission: 30 November 2020

Editors:

1. Dr. Anshul Verma

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India – 221005

+91-9826074618

anshulverma87@gmail.com

2. Dr. Padeepika Verma

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,

Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India - 209305

3. Prof. Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher

Professor, Division of Information Technology,

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), New Delhi, India -110078

4. Prof. Isaac Woungang

Professor, Department of Computer Science,

Ryerson University, Canada