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Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Cloud Computing to Exploit Short-Lived Relationships Among Users on the Move

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Intelligent Cloud Computing (ICC 2014)

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The interactions enabled by the popular sites of the Web 2.0 are largely confined to the virtual world of the Internet, thus failing to engage people in relevant interactions with people, contents or resources in their physical environment. In this paper, we motivate the potential of automatically establishing sporadic social networks among people (acquaintances or strangers) who happen to be physically close to one another at a certain moment. We present the design of one platform intended to provide solutions from the lowest level of establishing ad-hoc connections among nearby mobile devices, up to the highest level of automatically identifying the most relevant pieces of information to deliver at any time. A number of application scenarios are presented, along with technical details of a solution to empower ad-hoc communications by means of a virtualization layer.

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Notes

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    The greater the number of VNs, the smaller their corresponding regions.

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    Note that the numbers of vehicles in the simulations were chosen to ensure sufficiently high densities and, therefore, a certain level of connectedness among the VNs. Otherwise, additional losses would occur for both the VNLayer and the VNLayer+, but there would be nothing to do about them with ad-hoc communications only.

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Acknowledgment

Research funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 287966 (EXPERIMEDIA project), as well as by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Galician Regional Government under project CN 2012/260 “Consolidation of Research Units: AtlantTIC”. The authors are thankful to the students Juan Pablo Hurtado and Edgar Patricio Siguenza for their invaluable work in the implementation of the reference VNLayer and VNAODV following the algorithmic details and the results found in the literature.

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    Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres & Esteban Fernando Ordióñez-Morales

  2. AtlantTIC Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies, Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidade de Vigo, EE Telecomunicación, Campus Universitario s/n, 36310, Vigo, Spain

    Martín López-Nores, Yolanda Blanco-Fernández & José Juan Pazos-Arias

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Bravo-Torres, J.F., López-Nores, M., Blanco-Fernández, Y., Pazos-Arias, J.J., Ordióñez-Morales, E.F. (2015). Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Cloud Computing to Exploit Short-Lived Relationships Among Users on the Move. In: Al-Saidi, A., Fleischer, R., Maamar, Z., Rana, O. (eds) Intelligent Cloud Computing. ICC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19848-4_6

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