Social roles for opportunistic forwarding

Abstract

Opportunistic networks exploit human encounters to enable new mobile networked applications. Efficient routing for these types of networks relies on utilising encounters between nodes so that messages are moved closer to their destination. Previous work has looked at using encounter-based social network data for routing. It is unclear how fairly these schemes distribute the forwarding of messages. In this work we investigate this and look at the potential of classifying nodes using "social roles" to find nodes with equivalent connections that can be used for forwarding.