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Structure of Ego-alter relationships of Politicians in Twitter
Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti +1
We analyze the ego-alter Twitter networks of 300 Italian MPs and 18 European leaders, and of about 14,000 generic users. We find structural properties typical of social environment…
On the impact of the physical layer model on the performance of D2D-offloading in vehicular environments
Loreto Pescosolido, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella
Offloading data traffic from Infrastructure-to-Device (I2D) to Device-to-Device (D2D) communications is a powerful tool for reducing congestion, energy consumption, and spectrum us…
The Internet of People (IoP): A New Wave in Pervasive Mobile Computing
Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Sajal K. Das
Cyber-Physical convergence, the fast expansion of the Internet at its edge, and tighter interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices push towards an Internet…
Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments through Opportunistic Computing
Davide Mascitti, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella +2
Opportunistic computing is a paradigm for completely self-organised pervasive networks. Instead of relying only on fixed infrastructures as the cloud, users' devices act as service…
Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks: A Load and Mobility Aware Solution
Umair Sadiq, Mohan Kumar, Andrea Passarella +1
Pervasive networks formed by users' mobile devices have the potential to exploit a rich set of distributed service components that can be composed to provide each user with a multi…
The Structure of Online Social Networks Mirror Those in the Offline World
R. I. M. Dunbar, Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti +1
We use data on frequencies of bi-directional posts to define edges (or relationships) in two Facebook datasets and a Twitter dataset and use these to create ego-centric social netw…