Social-aware Content Sharing in Opportunistic Networks

Opportunistic networks represent the emerging pervasive communication paradigm that supports intermittent connectivity scenarios. To develop reliable data exchange and communications both protocols and services can be enhanced exploiting context and content information, defining thus a novel data-centric communication paradigm. In this demo we present a social- aware content sharing service based on the exchange of a combination of the user personal information, interests, social relationships and information related to shared contents. In this way, the system is able to implement cooperative downloading mechanisms allowing users to share files even they will never be directly connected.