Title :
Untethered local communications: From wireless access to social glue
Author :
Cigno, Renato Lo
Author_Institution :
DISI, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WONS.2011.5720198
