Directional-IPeR: Enhanced Direction and Interest Aware Peoplerank for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks

Yosra Shahin, Soumaia Al Ayyat, Sherif Aly

2020

Abstract

Network infrastructures are being continuously challenged by virtue of increased demand, resource-hungry applications, and at times of crisis when people need to work from homes such as the current Covid-19 epidemic situation, where most of the countries applied partial or complete lockdown and most of the people worked from home. Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks (OMSN) prove to be a great candidate to support existing network infrastructures. However, OMSNs have copious challenges comprising frequent disconnections and long delays. In this research, we aim to enhance the performance of OMSNs including delivery ratio and delay. We build upon an interest-aware social forwarding algorithm, namely Interest Aware PeopleRank (IPeR) in two ways 1) By embracing directional forwarding (Directional-IPeR), and (2) By utilizing a combination of Directional forwarding and multi-hop forwarding (DMIPeR). Different interest distributions and users’ densities are simulated using the Social-Aware Opportunistic Forwarding Simulator (SAROS). The results show that Directional-IPeR with a tolerance factor of 75% performed the best in terms of delay and delivery ratio compared to IPeR, and two other algorithms, namely MIPeR and DMIPeR.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Shahin Y., Al Ayyat S. and Aly S. (2020). Directional-IPeR: Enhanced Direction and Interest Aware Peoplerank for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-758-477-0, pages 19-29. DOI: 10.5220/0010105900190029

in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs20,
author={Yosra Shahin and Soumaia Al Ayyat and Sherif Aly},
title={Directional-IPeR: Enhanced Direction and Interest Aware Peoplerank for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2020},
pages={19-29},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010105900190029},
isbn={978-989-758-477-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - Directional-IPeR: Enhanced Direction and Interest Aware Peoplerank for Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks
SN - 978-989-758-477-0
AU - Shahin Y.
AU - Al Ayyat S.
AU - Aly S.
PY - 2020
SP - 19
EP - 29
DO - 10.5220/0010105900190029