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VirtualConnection: Opportunistic Networking for Web on Demand

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Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2010)

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Social networks such as Facebook and Secondlife are popular. Wireless devices abound from affluent countries to developing countries. Social networks need wide area Internet support. Wireless interfaces offer ad hoc networking capability, without the need for infrastructure support. Web on Demand (WoD) aims to bridge the gap between ad hoc social networks (people in close proximity with shared interests) and ad hoc networking. A key requirement for WoD is transparent connection management. This paper makes three contributions: First, an abstraction called VirtualConnection for transparent connection creation and migration, with socket-like API; second, an implementation on iPAQs (Windows Mobile) as a user level library, and proof of efficacy of using this abstraction for realizing WoD; third, evaluations to establish the performance of this abstraction. In particular, we show the performance degradation due to virtualizing the connection is negligible.

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    Lateef Yusuf & Umakishore Ramachandran

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  1. National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, 22130, VA, USA

    Krishna Kant

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, 52242-1419, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Sriram V. Pemmaraju

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Madras, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), 600036, Chennai, India

    Krishna M. Sivalingam

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University, 119122, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Jie Wu

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Yusuf, L., Ramachandran, U. (2010). VirtualConnection: Opportunistic Networking for Web on Demand. In: Kant, K., Pemmaraju, S.V., Sivalingam, K.M., Wu, J. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11322-2_33

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