Rosas, ErikaErikaRosasFörster, AnnaAnnaFörsterUdugama, AsangaAsangaUdugamaManzoni, PietroPietroManzoniDede, JensJensDedeKuladinithi, KoojanaKoojanaKuladinithiHernández-Orallo, EnriqueEnriqueHernández-Orallo2025-08-212025-08-212012-02-24in: Opportunistic Networks by Anna Förster, Pietro Manzoni, Enrique Hernández Orallo, Koojana Kuladinithi, Asanga Udugama: 151-174 (2024)978-3-031-47866-6978-3-031-47865-9https://hdl.handle.net/11420/57100In this last technical chapter, we finally present concrete application scenarios for opportunistic networks. We have waited with this discussion until the end so that the properties, advantages, and limitations of opportunistic networks become clear in detail first. Even if many different application cases have been proposed in the literature, not all of them are equally well suited to be implemented with opportunistic networks. Here, we focus only on the most promising examples where also concrete implementations already exist.enAirplane-to-airplane communications | Animal movements | Challenged internet of things | Digital contact tracing | Disaster management | Group monitoring | Node counting | Opportunistic networks | Ship-to-ship communications | Situational awareness | Smart city | Smart grids | Space vehicles communications | Sparse vehicle communication | Train-to-train communications | Underwater internet of things | Vehicular networkingTechnology::600: TechnologyBook Part10.1007/978-3-031-47866-6_11Book Chapter