In Vivo Evaluation of the Secure Opportunistic Schemes Middleware

Year
2017
Type(s)
Author(s)
Baker, Corey E and Starke, Allen and Hill-Jarrett, Tanisha G and McNair, Janise
Source
In IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017 (Acceptance: 15%)
Url
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2017.258
BibTeX
BibTeX

Over the past decade, online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and Facebook have thrived and experienced rapid growth to over 1 billion users. A major evolution would be to leverage the characteristics of OSNs to evaluate the effectiveness of the many routing schemes developed by the research community in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we showcase the Secure Opportunistic Schemes (SOS) middleware which allows different routing schemes to be easily implemented relieving the burden of security and connection establishment. The feasibility of creating a delay tolerant social network is demonstrated by using SOS to power AlleyOop Social, a secure delay tolerant networking research platform that serves as a real-life mobile social networking application for iOS devices. SOS and AlleyOop Social allow users to interact, publish messages, and discover others that share common interests in an intermittent network using Bluetooth, peer-to-peer WiFi, and infrastructure WiFi.

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