Opportunistic mobile social networks /

"The widespread availability of mobile devices coupled with recent advancements in networking capabilities make opportunistic networks one of the most promising technologies for next-generation mobile applications. This book covers recent developments in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects...

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Group Author: Wu, Jie, 1961- (Editor); Wang, Yunsheng, 1984- (Editor)
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "The widespread availability of mobile devices coupled with recent advancements in networking capabilities make opportunistic networks one of the most promising technologies for next-generation mobile applications. This book covers recent developments in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of opportunistic mobile social networks. It presents a new perspective of Mobile Social Networks, the opportunistic MSNs, which aim to enhance spontaneous interaction/communication among people that opportunistically encounter each other, without infrastructure support"--
Carrier Form: xxxviii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781466594944 (hardback : acid-free paper) :
1466594942 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Index Number: TK5105
CLC: TN929.5
Call Number: TN929.5/O623
Contents: 1. Social-communication composite networks / Prithwish Basu, Ben Baumer, Amotz Bar-Noy, and Chi-Kin Chau -- 2. Recent advances in information diffusion and influence maximization of complex social networks / Huiyuan Zhang, Subhankar Mishra, and My T. Thai -- 3. Characterizing link connectivity in opportunistic networks / Chul-Ho Lee and Do Young Eun -- 4. Discovering and predicting temporal patterns of wifi-interactive social populations / Xiang Li, Yi-Qing Zhang, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos -- 5. Behavioral and structural analysis of mobile cloud opportunistic networks / Anh-Dung Nguyen, Patrick Senac, and Michel Diaz -- 6. An overview of routing protocols in mobile social contact networks / Cong Liu, Chengyin Liu, and Wei Wang -- 7. Multicast in opportunistic networks / Yunsheng Wang and Jie Wu -- 8. Interest-based data dissemination in opportunistic mobile networks : design, implementation, and evaluation / Wei Gao, Wenjie Hu, and Guohong Cao -- 9. Exploiting social information in opportunistic mobile communication / Abderrahmen Mtibaa and Khaled A. Harras -- 10. Exploiting private profile matching for efficient packet forwarding in mobile social networks / Kuan Zhang, Xiaohui Liang, Rongxing Lu, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen -- 11. Privacy-preserving opportunistic networking / Gianpiero Costantino, Fabio Martinelli, and Paolo Santi -- 12. Incentivizing participatory sensing via auction mechanisms / Buster O. Holzbauer, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Eyuphan Bulut -- 13. A P2P search framework for intelligent mobile crowdsourcing / Andreas Konstantinidis and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti -- 14. Encounter-based opportunistic social discovery in mobile networks / Udayan Kumar and Ahmed Helmy -- 15. VANETs as an opportunistic mobile social network / Anna Maria Vegni and Thomas D.C. Little -- 16. Network emulation testbed for mobile opportunistic networks / Razvan Beuran, Toshiyuki Miyachi, Shinsuke Miwa, and Yoichi Shinoda.