6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

Research Article

SimBetAge: Utilizing temporal changes in social networks for delay/disconnection tolerant networking

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.7017,
        author={Jo Agila Bitsch  Link and Nicolai  Viol and Andre  Goliath and Klaus  Wehrle},
        title={SimBetAge: Utilizing temporal changes in social networks for delay/disconnection tolerant networking},
        proceedings={6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={Algorithms Design Performance},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.7017}
    }
    
  • Jo Agila Bitsch Link
    Nicolai Viol
    Andre Goliath
    Klaus Wehrle
    Year: 2009
    SimBetAge: Utilizing temporal changes in social networks for delay/disconnection tolerant networking
    MOBIQUITOUS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.7017
Jo Agila Bitsch Link1,*, Nicolai Viol1,*, Andre Goliath1,*, Klaus Wehrle1,*
  • 1: Distributed Systems Group, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
*Contact email: bitsch@cs.rwth-aachen.de, viol@cs.rwth-aachen.de, qoliath@cs.rwth-aachen.de, wehrle@cs.rwth-aachen.de

Abstract

In this paper, we present SimBetAge, an extension to Sim-Bet taking into account the gradual aging of connections in social networks which thereby increases the performance by an order of magnitude, especially in evolving network structures. For this purpose, we redefine similarity and betweenness to make use of weighted social network graphs.