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The C3PO project promotes the development of a new kind of social networks called Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networks (SESNs), dedicated to cultural or sports events. SESNs rely on opportunistic networks formed dynamically by the mobile devices of ...

A city-wide platform of sensing devices, or Data Collection Units (DCUs), can harness vehicular networks installed in public transports to gather sensor data at a backend server. Selection of DCU deployment sites must consider connectivity patterns and ...

First responders show specific movement and traffic patterns that are closely related to their current task during a disaster relief mission. In order to develop efficient communication systems both aspects should be considered. This is important ...

Opportunistic networks, often characterized by their intermittent connectivity and sparsity of nodes, has sparked routing in these networks to focus on isolated contact opportunities. Routing has predominantly been viewed as an exchange of messages ...

It has been shown that the distribution of popular content can benefit from solutions that dynamically distribute copies of the content from the backend to a subset of subscribed users, and let these users spread the content with opportunistic ...

This paper introduces BLESSED, a universal opportunistic ad hoc networking model intended for smart mobile devices. It enables fast and lightweight data dissemination in wireless community networks through the complementary utilization of the IEEE ...

Opportunistic networking can help emergency services in both their daily operation and disaster relief. This idea has been extensively explored in previous research, but most studies are based on little knowledge of real mobility. In order to support ...

Mobile devices are ubiquitous, and mobile-generated traffic is arguably a major component of today's web traffic. In particular, the use of smart-phones whilst commuting using public transport is a very popular and common practice in many countries. ...

Unlike TCP/IP networks, in DTNs end-to-end paths between nodes cannot be guaranteed at all times. This means that DTN nodes may have to store messages for long periods of time before they can forward the messages towards their ultimate destinations. As ...

Many emerging applications and the ubiquitous wireless signals have accelerated the development of WiFi-based indoor localization techniques. However, there is one primary issue, that is the environmental dynamics will greatly undermine the fingerprint ...

The C3PO project promotes the development of a new kind of spontaneous and ephemeral social networks dedicated to cultural, festive or sports events. They rely on opportunistic communication networks formed dynamically by mobile devices carried by event ...

This paper introduces RasPiPCloud, a Raspberry PI based low cost and light weight personal cloud that allows the user to gather, store and share their data as well as run a range of everyday services in a fully private manner while retaining complete ...

We present PotatoNet, an outdoor testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Its primary focus is robustness, reliability and flexibility. PotatoNet is designed to operate without on-site maintenance for extended periods of time. It can withstand heat, ...

This paper gives the design and implementation of pSync, a P2P file syncing tool for challenged networks. pSync implements a number of advanced features over existing file syncing tools, such as - role based file transfer, device priority scheduling and ...

Applications running over mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) often can trade-off some delay versus reliability in case of spo-radic disconnection periods. However, existing solutions for network partition [1,2] usually focus on settings for which dis-...