Authors:
Basim Mahmood
1
and
Ronaldo Menezes
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Mosul, Iraq
;
2
Florida Institute of Technology, United States
Keyword(s):
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Social Networks, Human Mobility Model, Social Capital, Memory Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Manipulation
;
Reasoning on Sensor Data
;
Sensor Networks
Abstract:
The technological structure of today’s societies enables people to easily exchange and share their information.
This structure contains many sophisticated technologies such as mobile wireless devices (e.g., smartphones
and tablets). These devices are mainly used for connecting people with each other. As these devices grow in
usability, many issues have become apparent such as memory management, security, and power consumption.
In this paper, we propose a novel social-based strategy for memory management in mobile sensor networks.
This strategy is inspired from two concepts, namely, social capital in sociology and preferential return mechanism
in human mobility. The findings show that the proposed strategy is quite effective in keeping up-to-date
information in each sensor/device about the sensor connections. We believe that this is the first work that
investigates the issue of memory management in this type of networks using concepts form social networks
and human mobility.