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Recently, personal hand-held mobile devices (e.g., MP3 players, PDAs, and smart- phones) have become more and more popular. Mobile users carrying such devices can report two different experiences with network services. The experience is nor- mally good in districts where Internet connectivity is available, and the users can access all Internet applications. On the other hand, in between such “Internet con- nectivity islands”, users are unable to transfer any information, even though the party that the user wishes to communicate with is within range of his/her mobile device and has wireless communication capabilities.
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Chen, J., Fan, J., Sun, Y. (2012). Introduction to Mobile Social Networks. In: Data Dissemination and Query in Mobile Social Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2254-9_1
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