Considerations and Open Issues in Delay Tolerant Network’S (DTNs) Security

Harminder Singh Bindra, Amrit Lal Sangal
DOI: 10.4236/wsn.2010.28076                

Abstract

Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) addresses challenges of providing end-to-end service where end-to-end data forwarding paths may not exist. Security and privacy are crucial to the wide deployments of DTN. Without security and privacy guarantees, people are reluctant to accept such a new network paradigm. To address the security and privacy issues in DTNs, we in this paper have discussed the various open issues and challenges which need to be addressed to evolve the secure DTNs.

Keywords

Delay Tolerant Network, Routing, Security, Cryptography

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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