[e2e] on detecting social nets and using them for optimising dtn forwarding algorithms

[David P. Reed]

I am told that this problem was solved by Nokia already.   Perhaps they 
patented it.

Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> the following technical report
>  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-684.html
> is available for your perusal. Due to circumstances beyond
> our control, we won't be talking about it in Kyoto
> unless you want to chat in the baths or temples...
>
> Bubble Rap: Forwarding in small world DTNs in ever decreasing circles
>
> In this paper we seek to improve understanding of the structure of human mobility, and to use this in the
> design of forwarding algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks for the dissemination of data amongst mobile users.
>
> Cooperation binds but also divides human society into communities. Members of the same community interact with
> each other preferentially. There is structure in human society. Within society and its communities, individuals
> have varying popularity. Some people are more popular and interact with more people than others; we may call
> them hubs. Popularity ranking is one facet of the population. In many physical networks, some nodes are more
> highly connected to each other than to the rest of the network. The set of such nodes are usually called
> clusters, communities, cohesive groups or modules. There is structure to social networking. Different metrics
> can be used such as information flow, Freeman betweenness, closeness and inference power, but for all of them,
> each node in the network can be assigned a global centrality value.
>
> What can be inferred about individual popularity, and the structure of human society from measurements within a
> network? How can the local and global characteristics of the network be used practically for information
> dissemination? We present and evaluate a sequence of designs for forwarding algorithms for Pocket Switched
> Networks, culminating in Bubble, which exploit increasing levels of information about mobility and interaction. 
>
> j&b
> with apologies to magritte,
> ceci n'est pas un sigcomm papier
>
>