Social-based Forwarding of Messages in Sensor Networks
Basim Mohammed Mahmood, Marcello Tomasini, Ronaldo Parente de Menezes · 2015
As we adopt the Internet of Things (IoT), the boundaries between sensor and social networks are likely to disappear. However, to this date, the use of social networks in the design of wireless sensor network protocols has not received much attention. In this paper, we focus on the concept of information dissemination in a framework where sensors are carried by people who are part of a social network. We propose two social-based forwarding approaches for what has been called Social Network of Sensors (SNoS). To this end, we exploit two important characteristics of ties in social networks, namely strong ties and weak ties. The former is used to achieve rapid dissemination to nearby sensors while the latter aims at dissemination to faraway sensors.