: Epidemic content dissemination in opportunistic social networks (OSN) has been analyzed in depth, theoretically and empirically. Most related works have studied the pairwise cont...
—Opportunistic ad-hoc communication enables portable devices such as smartphones to effectively exchange information, taking advantage of their mobility and locality. The nature ...
Gjergji Zyba, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stratis Ioannid...
Abstract—Pervasive vehicle-mounted mobile devices are increasingly common, and can be viewed as a large-scale ad hoc network on which collaborative, location-based services can b...
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Li-Shiuan Peh, Margaret Mar...
—IEEE 802.11 DCF is the MAC protocol currently used in wireless LANs. 802.11 DCF is inefficient due to two types of overhead; channel idle time and collision time. This paper pr...
Disparate algorithms are being designed to decide certain basic questions in opportunistic networks. This position paper describes a nascent idea that aims to provide a single fra...