Adapting standard tactical applications for a military disruption-tolerant network

Delay and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) pose a number of problems that are uncommon in the commercial, fast Internet, namely, lack of end-to-end connectivity and long delays. Thus, standard tactical applications, such as WWW, e-mail or Blue Force Tracking (BFT), are unable to work in DTNs and must be somehow adapted. In the paper we propose how this adaptation may be achieved, discussing our experience from the reference implementation we have made and preliminary tests we have carried out in a simulated DTN environment.