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This paper proposes an assessment model, based on a new taxonomy, which comprises an evaluation guideline with performance metrics and experimental setup to aid designers in evaluating solutions through fair comparisons. Simulation results are provided based on the proposed model considering Epidemic, PROPHET, Bubble Rap, and Spray and Wait, and showing how they perform under the same set of metrics and scenario.

Due to the increased capabilities of mobile devices and through wireless opportunistic contacts, users can experience new ways to share and retrieve content anywhere and anytime, even in the presence of link intermittency. Due to the significant number of available routing solutions, it is difficult to understand which one has the best performance, since all of them follow a different evaluation method. This paper proposes an assessment model, based on a new taxonomy, which comprises an evaluation guideline with performance metrics and experimental setup to aid designers in evaluating solutions through fair comparisons. Simulation results based on the proposed model revisit the performance results published by Epidemic, PROPHET, and BubbleRap, showing how they perform under the same set of metrics and scenario.

The Transmission Control Protocol - TCP has been widely researched in many different networking technologies such as wireless, optical, satellite, sensor, and wired since it is the most used protocol on the Internet. In Wireless mesh networks, this protocol still has challenges due to its origin and implementations for wired networks. This paper proposes an adaptation on the congestion control

The increasing demand of multimedia applications requires a new behavior of routing protocols for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). It is necessary to support the minimum requirements for quality of service (QoS), but WMNs also need to support the minimum requirements for quality of experience (QoE). This paper is an additional analysis of the proposed routing protocol OLSR-DC, from a perspective

This paper presents a proposal for dynamic control of Quality of Service (QoS) in optical networks based on optical burst switching (OBS) using a GMPLS control plane. In this proposal, monitoring agents are used to verify the QoS experienced by the burst classes and to deploy reactive mechanisms in order to guarantee absolute performance levels. Using GMPLS traffic engineering, these

ince users move around based on social relationships and interests, their imovement patterns represent how nodes are socially connected (i.e., nodes with strong social ties, nodes that meet occasionally by sharing the same working environment). This means that social interactions reflect personal relationships (e.g., family, friends, co-workers, passers-by) that may be translated into statistical contact opportunities within and between social groups over time. Such contact opportunities may be exploited to ensure good data dissemination and retrieval, even in the presence of intermittent connectivity. Thus, in the last years, a new routing trend based on social similarity emerged where social relationships, interests, popularity, among other social characteristics, are used to improve opportunistic routing (i.e., routing able to take advantage on intermittent contacts). In this chapter, the reader will learn about the different approaches related to opportunistic routing, focusing ...

The advances in the areas of microelectronics and telecommunications are helping to materialize the vision of a pervasive computing model through the incorporation of sensors and communication interfaces into objects of everyday life. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in crowd assisted sensing applications, in which people serve as the building block that can be exploited to offer pervasive opportunistic sensing at scale. This paper describes a new crowd assisted pervasive opportunistic sensing framework able of exploiting people's mobility to overcome the coverage limitation of sensors and the diversity of devices, expanding the scale of sensing applications. Index Terms—crowd assisted sensing; opportunistic network-ing; cooperative middleware; pervasive systems

Despite the evolution in deployed infrastructure and in the way that people access information, still there are those who are socially excluded and have no access to information due to their geographic location (e.g., riverside/countryside communities). This paper proposes an extension to a DTN architecture implementation to allow the dissemination of information in such communities, including educational short-video clips and audio books. The IBR-DTN architecture is complemented with a Bluetooth Convergence Layer, to facilitate the exchange of information over this short-range wireless technology, and with a Bundle Compression mechanism that aims at improving data exchange in short-lived opportunistic contacts happening among nodes. Experiments in a small-scale testbed and in a large-scale simulator environment show that nodes are indeed able to efficiently use contact opportunities to exchange an increased amount of data, allowing people in riverside communities to receive more co...