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TY - JOUR
T1 - Socially-aware congestion control in ad-hoc networks
T2 - Current status and the way forward
AU - Liaqat, Hannan Bin
AU - Ali, Amjad
AU - Qadir, Junaid
AU - Bashir, Ali Kashif
AU - Bilal, Muhammad
AU - Majeed, Fiaz
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Ad-hoc social networks (ASNETs) represent a special type of traditional ad-hoc network in which a user's social properties (such as the social connections and communications metadata as well as application data) are leveraged for offering enhanced services in a distributed infrastructureless environments. However, the wireless medium, due to limited bandwidth, can easily suffer from the problem of congestion when social metadata and application data are exchanged among nodes—a problem that is compounded by the fact that some nodes may act selfishly and not share its resources. While a number of congestion control schemes have been proposed for the traditional ad-hoc networks, there has been limited focus on incorporating social awareness into congestion control schemes. We revisit the existing traditional ad-hoc congestion control and data distribution protocols and motivate the need for embedding social awareness into these protocols to improve performance. We report that although some work is available in opportunistic network that uses socially-aware techniques to control the congestion issue, this area is largely unexplored and warrants more research attention. In this regards, we highlight the current research progress and identify multiple future directions of research.
AB - Ad-hoc social networks (ASNETs) represent a special type of traditional ad-hoc network in which a user's social properties (such as the social connections and communications metadata as well as application data) are leveraged for offering enhanced services in a distributed infrastructureless environments. However, the wireless medium, due to limited bandwidth, can easily suffer from the problem of congestion when social metadata and application data are exchanged among nodes—a problem that is compounded by the fact that some nodes may act selfishly and not share its resources. While a number of congestion control schemes have been proposed for the traditional ad-hoc networks, there has been limited focus on incorporating social awareness into congestion control schemes. We revisit the existing traditional ad-hoc congestion control and data distribution protocols and motivate the need for embedding social awareness into these protocols to improve performance. We report that although some work is available in opportunistic network that uses socially-aware techniques to control the congestion issue, this area is largely unexplored and warrants more research attention. In this regards, we highlight the current research progress and identify multiple future directions of research.
KW - Acknowledgment
KW - Ad-hoc social networks
KW - Bio-inspired
KW - Congestion control
KW - Delay-tolerant networks
KW - Opportunistic networks
KW - Transmission control protocol
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063277500&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.future.2019.02.017
DO - 10.1016/j.future.2019.02.017
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85063277500
VL - 97
SP - 634
EP - 660
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
SN - 0167-739X
ER -