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User-Centric Networking: Living-Examples and Challenges Ahead

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User-Centric Networking

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This paper provides a description of operational examples of User-centric networking models, providing a specific characterization of their main features. The paper provides also a set of guidelines concerning the deployment of future user-centric networking models, having in mind to assist in the integration of these models into future Internet architectures.

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Notes

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    Internet access or connectivity is here defined as a networking service consisting of IP address space allocation, Domain Name Service and routing assurance.

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    Formerly known as Whisher, Wifi.com is a brand reselling for the plugin Whisher.

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    Currently only available for MacOS and Windows XP.

  4. 4.

    the CuWIN Metrix kit costs 499.

  5. 5.

    Stands for “My Wi-Fi”, read “maifai”.

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Acknowledgments

We thank all of the authors that contributed to the white paper on which this paper was based, report number SITI-TR-11-03 (2011): Rute C. Sofia, Paulo Mendes, Waldir Moreira Junior, Andréa Ribeiro, Saulo Queiroz, Antonio Oliveira Junior, Tauseef Jamal, Namusale Chama and LuÍs Carvalho.

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    Rute Sofia, Paulo Mendes & Waldir Moreira Jr.

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Sofia, R., Mendes, P., Moreira, W. (2014). User-Centric Networking: Living-Examples and Challenges Ahead. In: Aldini, A., Bogliolo, A. (eds) User-Centric Networking. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_2

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