Opportunistic, mobility-assisted, or encounter networking is a method based on ad-hoc networking and introduced to disseminate data in a store-and-forward manner by means of spontaneously connecting mobile devices. While in many networked systems mobility is treated as a challenge requiring additional management, in opportunistic networks movement facilitates networking as it creates additional...

Understanding and structuring the use of social software by scientists is of high importance in modern research and education – new ways of cooperation and knowledge sharing leads to new ways of work for researchers in both, higher education and enterprises. The possibilities of social networking services provides means for open discourse and offers easier ways to make scientific and educationa...

One of the aims of the SatNEx (Satellite Network of Excellence, http://www.satnex.de) European project is to provide the scientific community that operates on satellite communications with measurement campaign results and evaluation tools, in order to support research activities that investigate problems in satellite communications at different levels of the OSI stack. In fact, the research act...

UNLABELLED Little is known about how consumers of direct-to-consumer personal genetic services share personal genetic risk information. In an age of ubiquitous online networking and rapid development of social networking tools, understanding how consumers share personal genetic risk assessments is critical in the development of appropriate and effective policies. This exploratory study investig...

The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm promises to simplify network configuration and resource management dramatically. Such features are extremely valuable to network operators and therefore, the industrial and the academic research and development communities are paying increasing attention to SDN. Although manufactures of wireless equipment are increasing their involvement in SDN-rel...

This article considers the affordances of social networking theories and tools to build new and effective e-learning practices. We argue that “connectivism” (social networking applied to learning and knowledge contexts) can lead to a reconceptualization of learning in which formal, nonformal, and informal learning can be integrated as to build potentially lifelong learning activities to be expe...

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are teeming with users and the content posted by them. Several activities like friendship/followership, authoring, commenting on, liking, resharing/retweeting posts typically occur on these sites. In this paper, we make an attempt at the unified modeling of various such activities on social networking sites. We propose a novel joint latent facto...

This paper reviews the research group Wireless and Multimedia Networking Lab, which is formed by faculty and researchers of the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communications of the University of Granada. Its research lines include broadband wireless networks, video streaming and multimedia traffic analysis, Software Defined Networking, Quality of Experience, Wireless Local Area Net...