Detecting Community Patterns Based On Ad Hoc Social Networks

This book describes the mobile ad hoc network which is a collection of mobile wireless nodes that can form network without using pre-existing infrastructure. Ad hoc social networking is then based on mobile devices. Ad hoc social networking is very popular these days because it opens the door for many devices that have Bluetooth facility to take part in our everyday social interactions with people. Through the ad hoc social networking we can conduct the meetings and also the monitoring of patients. Furthermore in this book explore the social context, wireless Rope was used as a framework in any ad hoc environment. Wireless rope was used to exchange or collect the information from the mobile devices. Wireless rope runs on mobile phones and collects the data from the devices that are in the proximity by Bluetooth device inquiries. Even with the limitation of device inquiry protocol it is still a well suited framework for detecting the communities in crowded places or where there is greater "strangers" movement. From the analysis of data and graphs it was concluded that the closed knitted community was formed when they were more students attending a lecture.

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Humera Niaz ha conseguito un master (Ad Hoc Social Networks) presso il COMSATS di Islamabad nel 2010. Attualmente lavora come professore assistente presso il COMSATS Institute if Information Technology (Lahore, Pakistan). I suoi interessi di ricerca includono le reti sociali, le reti Ad Hoc e la semantica e i servizi Web.