Social-aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Wireless Networks: Content Awareness or Obliviousness?
Waldir Moreira, Paulo Mendes

TL;DR
This paper explores how integrating content knowledge and social awareness can enhance opportunistic wireless networking, especially in highly disrupted environments, by enabling content dissemination without relying on fixed infrastructure.
Contribution
It analyzes social-aware content-based opportunistic networking approaches and demonstrates through simulations how content knowledge improves network performance in disruptive scenarios.
Findings
Content knowledge enhances social-aware dissemination.
Simulations show improved delivery rates with content-oriented strategies.
Social awareness enables resilient content sharing in disrupted networks.
Abstract
With the current host-based Internet architecture, networking faces limitations in dynamic scenarios, due mostly to host mobility. The ICN paradigm mitigates such problems by releasing the need to have an end-to-end transport session established during the life time of the data transfer. Moreover, the ICN concept solves the mismatch between the Internet architecture and the way users would like to use it: currently a user needs to know the topological location of the hosts involved in the communication when he/she just wants to get the data, independently of its location. Most of the research efforts aim to come up with a stable ICN architecture in fixed networks, with few examples in ad-hoc and vehicular networks. However, the Internet is becoming more pervasive with powerful personal mobile devices that allow users to form dynamic networks in which content may be exchanged at all…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Caching and Content Delivery · Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
