Modelling inter-contact times in social pervasive networks

MSWiM'11 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 333-340

  Passarella, Andrea ^a   Conti, Marco ^a   Boldrini, Chiara ^a   Dunbar, Robin I M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human factors; Performance

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; FUNDAMENTAL MODELS; HUMAN SOCIAL NETWORKS; MOBILE USERS; PERFORMANCE; PERVASIVE NETWORKING; PERVASIVE NETWORKS; PHYSICAL WORLD; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STUDY CASE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

AGGREGATES; COMMUNICATION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 83055169626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068897.2068955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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