• DocumentCode
    2609797
  • Title

    Untethered local communications: From wireless access to social glue

  • Author

    Cigno, Renato Lo

  • Author_Institution
    DISI, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    26-28 Jan. 2011
  • Firstpage
    42
  • Lastpage
    43
  • Abstract
    The paper presents the issues on the role of wireless access networks to support the kind of information exchange and interactions involved in the evolving social networks. The author discusses several requirements that the wireless access networks and social networking needs to address such as the communication infrastructure, distributed and informal trusts, environment interactions, body interactions, and context awareness.
  • Keywords
    computer network security; computer networks; radiocommunication; social networking (online); ubiquitous computing; body interactions; communication infrastructure; context awareness; distributed trust; environment interaction; informal trust; information exchange; social networks; wireless access network; Ad hoc networks; Context; Humans; Internet; Social network services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2011 Eighth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bardonecchia
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-189-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WONS.2011.5720198
  • Filename
    5720198