HYCCUPS: Opportunistic Engine for Device-to-Device Communication on Android

Abstract

Opportunistic networks have been gaining steady traction in the area of mobile networks in recent years, due to the ubiquity of mobile devices. However, most of the implementations proposed so far are for specific devices, or require administrator rights and rooted phones for installation. For this reason, in this paper we propose an Android opportunistic engine, part of the HYCCUPS project, that can be run on most Android devices with a simple installation. Furthermore, applications that require opportunistic communication can easily be implemented on top of it, and in this paper we show how. Moreover, we also present an initial evaluation of our proposed engine and show that it is able to deliver all messages between two nodes with good latency.