Mobile social networks: Architectures, social properties, and key research challenges

N Vastardis, K Yang - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile social networks (MSNs) are mobile communication systems focusing not only on the
behaviour but also on the social needs of the users. In a broader view all mobile systems …

Exploiting friendship relations for efficient routing in mobile social networks

E Bulut, BK Szymanski - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Routing in delay tolerant networks is a challenging problem due to the intermittent
connectivity between nodes resulting in the frequent absence of end-to-end path for any …

Data-driven generation of spatio-temporal routines in human mobility

L Pappalardo, F Simini - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2018 - Springer
The generation of realistic spatio-temporal trajectories of human mobility is of fundamental
importance in a wide range of applications, such as the developing of protocols for mobile …

Social feature-based multi-path routing in delay tolerant networks

J Wu, Y Wang - 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most routing protocols for delay tolerant networks resort to the sufficient state information,
including trajectory and contact information, to ensure routing efficiency. However, state …

NextCell: Predicting location using social interplay from cell phone traces

D Zhang, D Zhang, H Xiong, LT Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Location prediction based on cellular network traces has recently spurred lots of attention.
However, predicting user mobility remains a very challenging task due to the fuzziness of …

Hypercube-based multipath social feature routing in human contact networks

J Wu, Y Wang - IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most routing protocols for delay tolerant networks resort to the sufficient state information,
including trajectory and contact information, to ensure routing efficiency. However, state …

A node optimization model based on the spatiotemporal characteristics of the road network for urban traffic mobile crowd sensing

H Yu, J Fang, S Liu, Y Ren, J Lu - Vehicular Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban traffic mobile crowd sensing (Urban Traffic MCS) has emerged as a new effective
paradigm of sensing and collecting data by means of vehicles equipped with various …

NextMe: Localization using cellular traces in Internet of Things

D Zhang, S Zhao, LT Yang, M Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) opens up tremendous opportunities to location-based industrial
applications that leverage both Internet-resident resources and phones' processing power …

DTN-meteo: Forecasting the performance of DTN protocols under heterogeneous mobility

A Picu, T Spyropoulos - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Opportunistic or delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) may be used to enable communication in
case of failure or lack of infrastructure (disaster, censorship, remote areas) and to …

SCAMPI: Service platform for social aware mobile and pervasive computing

M Pitkänen, T Kärkkäinen, J Ott, M Conti… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Allowing mobile users to find and access resources available in the surrounding
environment opportunistically via their smart devices could enable them to create and use a …