Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Fast handoff for seamless wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Bubble rap: social-based forwarding in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Ad Hoc Networking
SIPHoc: efficient SIP middleware for ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2007 International Conference on Middleware
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Socially-aware routing for publish-subscribe in delay-tolerant mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Current capabilities of mobile handheld devices introduce them to new roles that were not possible less than a few years ago. In this paper, we look at personal mobile devices as an extension to the wireless infrastructure in environments that lack complete infrastructure coverage. We discuss various roles that these devices can play, starting with setting the devices as Internet relays that provide access to other devices not in range of the infrastructure access points. We then investigate server-like functionalities, in which the devices act as communication proxies or information caches in subnets disconnected from the rest of the network. We describe in detail the system architecture and an experimental implementation of these functionalities focusing on the practical issues of building the collective system.