Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) recently have drawn much attention from researchers due to
their wide applications in various challenging environments. Previous DTN research mainly …

As mobile devices become more ubiquitous, the amount of cellular traffic for multimedia
content grows explosively. Therefore, data dissemination through proximity-based …

Mobile opportunistic networks (MONs) are intermittently connected networks, such as pocket
switched networks formed by human-carried mobile devices. Routing in MONs is very …

Data dissemination is a challenging issue in mobile social networks. It aims at increasing the
overall delivery ratio and reducing the overall delivery delay. Most of the existing works …

Sensor devices and the emergent networks that they enable are capable of transmitting
information between data sources. Since these devices have low-power and intermittent …

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-configurable infrastructure less wireless network
of mobile devices. The devices or nodes can move randomly in the network which results in …

Smart devices are supporting emerging types of location-based gaming applications to
attain collaborations among collocated users in public places like transports. However, they …

A mobile Social Network (MSN) is a type of wireless networks formed by people moving
around carrying mobile devices. In this paper, we specifically study the MSNs that are …

With the popularity of mobile devices, mobile social networks (MSNs) formed by people
carrying mobile devices moving around and contacting each other have become a hot …

When in physical proximity, data can be directly exchanged between the mobile devices
people carry-for example over Bluetooth. If people cooperate to store, carry and forward …