Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
User Mobility for Opportunistic Ad-Hoc Networking
WMCSA '04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Visualizing community detection in opportunistic networks
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Bubble rap: social-based forwarding in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Promoting tolerance for delay tolerant network research
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Plausible mobility: inferring movement from contacts
MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking
An opportunistic platform for Android-based mobile devices
MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking
Critical analysis of encounter traces
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students
Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Strangers help friends to communicate in opportunistic networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Fast track article: From encounters to plausible mobility
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Part-whole dissemination of large multimedia contents in opportunistic networks
Computer Communications
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So far, the search for Opportunistic Network (ON) applications has focused on urban/rural scenarios where the combined use of mobility and the store-carry-and-forward paradigm helpfully recovers from network partitions and copes with node sparsity. This paper explores the chance of using ONs in workplaces, where the node distribution is denser, thus contributing to reduce the message delivery latency, and where we still find similar needs for informal and unplanned network platforms to support human social relationships and interactions. Both a survey and trace recording experiments have been used to support the analysis of this mobility setting. The ability of recording very short contact times (i.e. lasting few seconds) allowed to interestingly show the slightly different role the social relationships play in dense scenarios and how the large amount of contacts (both short and long), occurring in densily populated spaces, actually contribute to reduce the message-delivery latency and to increase the delivery probability.