SocialDTN: a DTN implementation for digital and social inclusion

Authors:
Waldir Moreira;Ronedo Ferreira;Douglas Cirqueira;Paulo Mendes;Eduardo Cerqueira
Affiliations:
University Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal;Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil;Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil;University Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal;Federal University of Pará & University of California, Los Angeles, Belém, Brazil
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM MobiCom workshop on Lowest cost denominator networking for universal access
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Despite of the importance of access to computers and to the Internet for the development of people and their inclusion in society, there are people that still suffer with digital divide and social exclusion. Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) can provide the technical support for the digital/social inclusion of these people as it allows opportunistic and asynchronous communication, which does not depend upon networking infrastructure. We introduce SocialDTN, an implementation of the DTN architecture for Android devices that operates over Bluetooth and aims to take advantages of users' social daily routines to improve data forwarding. As we want to exploit the social proximity and interactions existing among users, SocialDTN considers a social-aware opportunistic routing proposal,dLife, instead of the well-known (but social-oblivious) PROPHET. Some preliminary field experimentations are explained based on the direct delivery of content.