In opportunistic networks (OppNets), routing and data forwarding among mobile devices are
facilitated by relays or next‐hop forwarders. To guarantee end‐to‐end data delivery it is …

A pocket switched network (PSN) is dynamically formed by people who carry portable
handheld devices. Interest in PSNs is driven by the increasing number of handheld devices …

Nowadays, routing proposals must deal with a panoply of heterogeneous devices,
intermittent connectivity, and the users' constant need for communication, even in rather …

The current Internet design is not capable of supporting communications in environments
characterized by very long delays and frequent network partitions. To allow devices to …

Mobile social networks, as a type of delay‐tolerant networks, are composed of nodes with
different social properties in which information can be shared among them through …

Residential energy constitutes 38% of the total energy consumption in the United States [1].
Although a number of building simulators have been proposed, there are no residential …

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has gained increasing attention from the research
community as it is able to improve content dissemination by releasing the dependency on …

In this paper, we enhance CLWPR, a cross-layer optimized position-based routing protocol
for urban VANET environments, introducing social aspects to its design so as to efficiently …

With the tremendous growth of mobile devices, eg, smartphones, tablets and PDAs in recent
years, people are looking for more advanced platforms in order to use their computational …

In recent years large attention is being devoted to a new networking trend focused on data
centricity. The major motivation has been the development of a framework able to mitigate …