Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have appeared in the context of space explorations and are engineered in order to solve the problem of intermittent connectivity. In this article, we revise the main lines of research in DTN, covering the evolution of the DTN domain towards mobile ad hoc networks, social network analysis and performance evaluation.
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