Impact of Human Mobility on Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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
Characterizing pairwise inter-contact patterns in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems
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Is temporal dimension knowledge alone sufficient to characterize contacts in opportunistic networks? Several studies analyze the temporal aspect of contacts with significant results concerning the contact and inter-contact duration. Nevertheless, only the temporal dimension does not give a complete overview of contact characterization. We propose the surround indicator as a metric to exhibit the contact connectivity in opportunistic networks. We evaluate the surround indicator on two existing datasets. Our preliminary results reveal that contacts have too heterogeneous surrounds to be considered only in terms of duration.