%0 Conference Paper %1 Hui:2005:PSN:1080139.1080142 %A Hui, Pan %A Chaintreau, Augustin %A Scott, James %A Gass, Richard %A Crowcroft, Jon %A Diot, Christophe %B Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking %C New York, NY, USA %D 2005 %I ACM %K mobility ubicon ubiquitous venus %P 244--251 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1080139.1080142 %T Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1080139.1080142 %X Pocket Switched Networks (PSN) make use of both human mobility and local/global connectivity in order to transfer data between mobile users' devices. This falls under the Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) space, focusing on the use of opportunistic networking. One key problem in PSN is in designing forwarding algorithms which cope with human mobility patterns. We present an experiment measuring forty-one humans' mobility at the Infocom 2005 conference. The results of this experiment are similar to our previous experiments in corporate and academic working environments, in exhibiting a power-law distrbution for the time between node contacts. We then discuss the implications of these results on the design of forwarding algorithms for PSN. %@ 1-59593-026-4

@inproceedings{Hui:2005:PSN:1080139.1080142, abstract = {Pocket Switched Networks (PSN) make use of both human mobility and local/global connectivity in order to transfer data between mobile users' devices. This falls under the Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) space, focusing on the use of opportunistic networking. One key problem in PSN is in designing forwarding algorithms which cope with human mobility patterns. We present an experiment measuring forty-one humans' mobility at the Infocom 2005 conference. The results of this experiment are similar to our previous experiments in corporate and academic working environments, in exhibiting a power-law distrbution for the time between node contacts. We then discuss the implications of these results on the design of forwarding algorithms for PSN.}, acmid = {1080142}, added-at = {2011-01-26T00:18:33.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hui, Pan and Chaintreau, Augustin and Scott, James and Gass, Richard and Crowcroft, Jon and Diot, Christophe}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21b718660d5ec3bcbb8e183d1797ba7c0/atzmueller}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking}, description = {Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1080139.1080142}, interhash = {7dae9ef699bbe239b3f476a93c2e7ec5}, intrahash = {1b718660d5ec3bcbb8e183d1797ba7c0}, isbn = {1-59593-026-4}, keywords = {mobility ubicon ubiquitous venus}, location = {Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA}, numpages = {8}, pages = {244--251}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {WDTN '05}, timestamp = {2011-01-26T00:18:33.000+0100}, title = {Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1080139.1080142}, year = 2005 }