Social-aware Opportunistic Routing Protocol based on User's Interactions and Interests

TL;DR

This paper introduces SCORP, a social-aware opportunistic routing protocol that leverages user interactions and interests to enhance data delivery in urban, dense networks, outperforming existing solutions in simulations.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel routing protocol that combines social interaction data and content interests, improving data dissemination in challenging urban scenarios.

Findings

SCORP outperforms dLife, Bubble Rap, and Spray and Wait in simulations.

Social awareness and content knowledge improve routing efficiency.

Simulation results demonstrate better delivery rates and reduced delays.

Abstract

Nowadays, routing proposals must deal with a panoply of heterogeneous devices, intermittent connectivity, and the users' constant need for communication, even in rather challenging networking scenarios. Thus, we propose a Social-aware Content-based Opportunistic Routing Protocol, SCORP, that considers the users' social interaction and their interests to improve data delivery in urban, dense scenarios. Through simulations, using synthetic mobility and human traces scenarios, we compare the performance of our solution against other two social-aware solutions, dLife and Bubble Rap, and the social-oblivious Spray and Wait, in order to show that the combination of social awareness and content knowledge can be beneficial when disseminating data in challenging networks.