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Table 5 Solution, protocol compare, and social characteristics

From: Content distribution and protocol design issue for mobile social networks: a survey

Solution

Unicast or multicast

Protocols for comparison

Social characteristics

LABEL [84]

Unicast, multicast

MCP, WAIT, Control

Community

BUBBLE RAP [85]

Unicast, multicast

MCP, LABEL, FLOOD,WAIT

Community degree centrality

LocalCom [86]

Unicast, multicast

PROPHET, Bubble Rap

Community tie strength betweenness centrality

Friendship-based [87]

Unicast, multicast

PROPHET, SimBet

Community, friendship, similarity, tie strength

Gently [88]

Unicast, multicast

PRPHET

Community

DR [89]

Unicast, multicast

SimBet, Epidemic

Community

SimBet [90]

Unicast

PROPHET, Epidemic

Betweenness centrality similarity

SimBetTs [91]

Unicast

PROPHET, Epidemic

Betweenness centrality, similarity, tie strength

HiBOp [92]

Unicast multicast

PROPHT, Epidemic

Context information, Social relationship, similarity

PeopleRank [93]

Unicast

SimBet

Friendship, similarity

Social-based [94]

Multicast

Epidemic, BubbleRap, PROPIIET, SimBet

Community, centrality

Fair Routing [95]

Unicast

Epidemic, PROPHET, SimBet

Community, centrality

Community-aware opportunistic routing (CAOR) [107]

Multicast

PROPHT, Bubble Rep, SimBet

Community, similarity

Zero-knowledge multi-copy routing {108]

Multicast

Epidemic, Spray and Wait

Community, centrality

Homing spread: community home-based multi-copy routing in MSN [108]

Unicast multicast

Epidemic, Home spreading, Spray and Wait

Community, centrality