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Towards Realistic Vehicular Network Modeling Using Planet-scale Public Webcams
Gautam S. Thakur, Pan Hui, Hamed Ketabdar +1
Realistic modeling of vehicular mobility has been particularly challenging due to a lack of large libraries of measurements in the research community. In this paper we introduce a…
Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Preferences and Encounter Statistics for DTN Performance
Gautam S. Thakur, Udayan Kumar, Ahmed Helmy +1
Spatio-temporal preferences and encounter statistics provide realistic measures to understand mobile user's behavioral preferences and transfer opportunities in Delay Tolerant Netw…
Similarity Analysis and Modeling in Mobile Societies: The Missing Link
Gautam Thakur, Ahmed Helmy, Wei-Jen Hsu
A new generation of "behavior-aware" delay tolerant networks is emerging in what may define future mobile social networks. With the introduction of novel behavior-aware protocols,…
SHIELD: Social sensing and Help In Emergency using mobiLe Devices
Gautam S. Thakur, Mukul Sharma, Ahmed Helmy
School and College campuses face a perceived threat of violent crimes and require a realistic plan against unpredictable emergencies and disasters. Existing emergency systems (e.g.…
PROTECT: Proximity-based Trust-advisor using Encounters for Mobile Societies
Udayan Kumar, Gautam Thakur, Ahmed Helmy
Many interactions between network users rely on trust, which is becoming particularly important given the security breaches in the Internet today. These problems are further exacer…