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This chapter surveys the typical applications of delay tolerant network techniques from four aspects: digital communication for rural areas, personal/wildlife communications, battlefield communications, disaster rescues and environmental monitoring communications.
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iButtons, manufactured by Dallas Semiconductor (now a subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products), are tiny computers encased in rugged steel containing approximately the size of a large lithium battery.
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This includes both personal information and disaster situations.
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Gao, L., Yu, S., Luan, T.H., Zhou, W. (2015). Delay Tolerant Networks Based Applications. In: Delay Tolerant Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18108-0_2
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