DTN Seminar 2010

Topics for assignments:


  1. Social factors in Opportunistic Networks (I)
    1. Reconciling Community Resource Requirements in U-Nets
    2. Delay-Tolerant Social Networking.
    3. Goose: Social Network Services for Developing Worlds.
  2. Social factors in Opportunistic Networks (II)
    1. Know Thy Neighbor: Towards Optimal Mapping of Contacts to Social Graphs for DTN Routing
    2. From Contacts to Graphs: Pitfalls in Using Complex Network Analysis for DTN Routing
    3. Real World Routing Using Virtual World Information
  3. Temporal factors in Opportunistic Networks
    1. SimBetAge: Dealing with Change in Social Networks for Pocket Switched Networks
    2. The age of impatience: Optimal replication schemes for opportunistic networks
    3. Using Evolving Graphs to Evaluate DTN Routing Protocols.
    4. Community Detection of Time-Varying Mobile Social Networks
  4. Security in Opportunistic Social Networks (I)
    1. Leveraging Social Contacts for Message Confidentiality in Delay-Tolerant Networks
    2. StarClique: Providing Privacy Guarantees in Social Networks using Graph Augmentation
  5. Security in Opportunistic Social Networks (II)
    1. A Network-Aware Distributed Membership Protocol for Collaborative Defense
    2. Safebook: Feasibility of Transitive Cooperation for Privacy on a Decentralized Social Network
  6. Security in Opportunistic Social Networks (III)
    1. Privacy in Context-Based and Epidemic Forwarding
    2. Lockr: Better Privacy for Social Networks
  7. Applications for Opportunistic Social Networks
    1. MobiClique Middleware for Mobile Social Networking
    2. Cool-Tether: Energy Efficient On-the-fly WiFi Hot-spots using Mobile Phones
    3. D-Book: A Mobile Social Networking Application for Delay Tolerant Networks
  8. Content Distribution
    1. TACO-DTN: a time-aware content-based dissemination system for delay tolerant networks
    2. Distributing content updates over a mobile social network
    3. The Limits of Theory: Pragmatic Challenges in Mobile Ad Hoc Systems
  9. Publish/Subscribe in Opportunistic Networks
    1. A Socio-Aware Overlay for Publish/Subscribe Communication in Delay Tolerant Networks
    2. Socially-Aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    3. Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Social Network Perspective