On Nodal Encounter Patterns in Wireless LAN Traces Export

@inproceedings{hsu:nodal, abstract = {In this work we study WLAN traces from five different sources and focus on investigation of encounter patterns between users. We find that typical wireless LAN users encounter with a small portion of the whole population (no more than 60\% in all traces, and on average between 1.88\% to 6.70\%). Total encounters of MNs follow BiPareto distribution. These few encounters are sufficient to build a connected relationship network, which is a Small World graph. We further investigate the potential of node-to-node information diffusion, and find that the richness of encounter pattern provides a reliable platform on which information diffusion without infrastructure is feasible and robust.}, address = {Boston, MA, USA}, author = {Hsu, Wei J. and Helmy, Ahmed}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2006)}, citeulike-article-id = {5085477}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1666492}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.winmee.org/papers/02-03.pdf}, keywords = {cambridge\_haggle, crawdad, dartmouth\_campus, ibm\_watson, measurement, wireless}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, month = {April}, pages = {1--10}, posted-at = {2009-07-07 12:13:59}, priority = {2}, title = {On Nodal Encounter Patterns in Wireless {LAN} Traces}, url = {http://www.winmee.org/papers/02-03.pdf}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - hsu:nodal L3 - citeulike-article-id:5085477 N2 - In this work we study WLAN traces from five different sources and focus on investigation of encounter patterns between users. We find that typical wireless LAN users encounter with a small portion of the whole population (no more than 60% in all traces, and on average between 1.88% to 6.70%). Total encounters of MNs follow BiPareto distribution. These few encounters are sufficient to build a connected relationship network, which is a Small World graph. We further investigate the potential of node-to-node information diffusion, and find that the richness of encounter pattern provides a reliable platform on which information diffusion without infrastructure is feasible and robust. CY - Boston, MA, USA AD - Boston, MA, USA EP - 10 TI - On Nodal Encounter Patterns in Wireless {LAN} Traces T2 - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2006) SP - 1 KW - cambridge_haggle KW - crawdad KW - dartmouth_campus KW - ibm_watson KW - measurement KW - wireless AU - Hsu, Wei AU - Helmy, Ahmed PY - 2006/April// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1666492 ER -