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Social-Aware Forwarding Improves Routing Performance in Pocket Switched Networks

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We study and characterize social-aware forwarding protocols in opportunistic networks and we derive bounds on the expected message delivery time for two different routing protocols, which are representatives of social-oblivious and social-aware forwarding. In particular, we consider a recently introduced stateless, social-aware forwarding protocol using interest similarity between individuals, and the well-known BinarySW protocol, which is optimal within a certain class of stateless, social-oblivious forwarding protocols. We compare both from the theoretical and experimental point of view the asymptotic performance of Interest-Based (IB) forwarding and BinarySW under two mobility scenarios, modeling situations in which pairwise meeting rates between nodes are either independent of or correlated to the similarity of their interests.

The three first authors were partially supported by the EU through project FRONTS. The work of P. Santi was partially supported by MIUR, program PRIN, Project COGENT.

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Díaz, J., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Mitsche, D., Santi, P., Stefa, J. (2011). Social-Aware Forwarding Improves Routing Performance in Pocket Switched Networks. In: Demetrescu, C., Halldórsson, M.M. (eds) Algorithms – ESA 2011. ESA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23719-5_61

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