@inproceedings{929b76392cae44a3bc22b6c1d2f603b6,
title = "Impact of altruism on opportunistic communications",
abstract = "Opportunistic networking largely relies on human-carried devices as relays to move data across the network. Human altruistic behavior is an important factor in the feasibility and performance of such a system. In this paper, we study the impact of different altruism distributions on the system throughput and delay of opportunistic communications. We evaluate the system performance by utilizing social network topological models and experimental human mobility traces with different communication patterns. We also discuss several observations from the result of the study. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of the impact of altruism on opportunistic communications.",
keywords = "Altruism, Community, Opportunistic communication, Simulation, Social network",
author = "Kuang Xu and Pan Hui and Li, \{Victor O.K.\} and Jon Crowcroft and Vito Latora and Pietro Lio",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ICUFN.2009.5174303",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424442164",
series = "2009 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2009",
pages = "153--158",
booktitle = "2009 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2009",
note = "2009 1st International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2009 ; Conference date: 07-06-2009 Through 09-06-2009",
}