Authors:
Basim Mahmood
;
Marcello Tomasini
and
Ronaldo Menezes
Affiliation:
Florida Institute of Technology, United States
Keyword(s):
: Social Networks, Social Network of Sensors, Human Mobility.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Manipulation
;
Data Quality and Integrity
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet of Things
;
Reasoning on Sensor Data
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
As we adopt the Internet of Things (IoT), the boundaries between sensor and social networks are likely to
disappear. However, to this date, the use of social networks in the design of wireless sensor network protocols
has not received much attention. In this paper, we focus on the concept of information dissemination in a
framework where sensors are carried by people who are part of a social network. We propose two social-based
forwarding approaches for what has been called Social Network of Sensors (SNoS). To this end, we exploit
two important characteristics of ties in social networks, namely strong ties and weak ties. The former is used
to achieve rapid dissemination to nearby sensors while the latter aims at dissemination to faraway sensors.