CiteULike is a free online bibliography manager. Register and you can start organising your references online.

Are you moved by your social network application? Export

In Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (August 2008), pp. 67-72.

Citation Format

[Posts]

View FullText article


tnhh's tags for this article

*cs5023 dtn opportunistic-networks pvnets social-networks

X Reviews [Write a review of this article]

X Find related articles from these CiteULike users

X Find related articles with these CiteULike tags

X Posting History

X Abstract

This paper studies a Bluetooth-based mobile social network application deployed among a group of 28 participants collected during a computer communication conference. We compare the social graph containing friends, as defined by participants, to the contact graph, that is the temporal network created by opportunistic contacts as owners of devices move and come into communication range. Our contribution is twofold: first, we prove that most properties of nodes, links, and paths correlate among the social and contact graphs. Second, we describe how the structure of the social graph helps build forwarding paths in the contact graph, allowing two nodes to communicate over time using opportunistic contacts and intermediate nodes. Efficient paths can be built using only pairs of nodes that are socially close (i.e. connected through a few pairs of friends). Our results indicate that opportunistic forwarding complies with the requirement of social network application.


X BibTeX record

X RIS record


Privacy Statement | Terms & Conditions
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral (postdoc) positions. The service is similar in scope to EndNote or RefWorks or any other reference manager like BibTeX, but it is a social bookmarking service for scientists and humanities researchers.