Enabling social networking in ad hoc networks of mobile phones

Summary: AdSocial enables social networking in mobile ad hoc networks with a lightweight piggybacking layer on routing protocols, no changes needed. Demo on 10-15 Nokia N810s shows voice/video, chat, and games with low overhead on constrained devices. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10158
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.3729697e-05
Overall Rank: 8,786 | 39.73%
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687611

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Authors

1. Emre Sarigöl (ETH Zurich)
2. Oriana Riva (ETH Zurich)
3. Patrick Stuedi (Microsoft)
4. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sarigol_vldb09,
        title = {{Enabling social networking in ad hoc networks of mobile phones}},
        author = {Sarigöl, Emre and Riva, Oriana and Stuedi, Patrick and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687611},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687611},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,623	Efficient Proximity Detection among Mobile Users via Self-Tuning Policies	2010	VLDB	6.1453429e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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