The widespread availability of mobile devices coupled with recent advancements in networking capabilities make opportunistic networks one of the most promising technologies for next-generation mobile applications. This book covers recent developments in the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of opportunistic mobile social networks. It presents a new perspective of mobile social networks, the opportunistic MSNs, which aim to enhance spontaneous interaction/communication among people that opportunistically encounter each other, without infrastructure support.

Jie Wu, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University
Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan

Social-Communication Composite Networks. Recent Advances in Information Diffusion and Influence Maximization of Complex Social Networks. Characterizing Link Connectivity in Opportunistic Networks. Discovering and Predicting Temporal Patterns of WiFi-Interactive Social Populations. Behavioral and Structural Analysis of Mobile Cloud Opportunistic Networks. An Overview of Routing Protocols in Mobile Social Contact Networks. Multicast in Opportunistic Networks. Interest-Based Data Dissemination in Opportunistic Mobile Networks: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation. Exploiting Social Information in Opportunistic Mobile Communication. Exploiting Private Profile Matching for Efficient Packet Forwarding in Mobile Social Networks. Privacy-Preserving Opportunistic Networking. Incentivizing Participatory Sensing via Auction Mechanisms. A P2P Search Framework for Intelligent Mobile Crowdsourcing. Encounter-Based Opportunistic Social Discovery in Mobile Networks. VANETs as an Opportunistic Mobile Social Network. Network Emulation Testbed for Mobile Opportunistic Networks