User-centric networking and services: part 2 [Guest Editorial]

User-centric networks (UCNs) can be seen as a recent architectural trend of self-organizing autonomic networks where the Internet end user cooperates by sharing network services and resources. UCNs are characterized by spontaneous and grassroots deployments of wireless architectures, where users on such environments roam frequently and are also owners of networking equipment. Common to UCNs is a social behavior that heavily impacts network operation from an end-to-end perspective.