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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Calibri,sans-serif">Today's seminar (22nd June) will be at
16:00 in Gower Street GS/302. <br>
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Nishanth Sastry, King's college London</font><br>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; ">Title: "What can *we* do for the network?:
Social network support for data delivery"</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; ">Abstract: </div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Are
social networks useful in other computing contexts beyond the </font><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; ">ubiquitous 'share' buttons sprinkled all over the
Web? This talk will </span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">introduce a simple
cross-layer design methodology that applies information</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">derived
from the social network layer to adapt lower-layer network </font><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; ">infrastructure. Multiple case studies will be
presented, as time permits, </span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; ">that apply social network information to different
network-layer problems </span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">including routing in
opportunistic networks, delivering the long-tail of </span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; ">user-generated content, saving energy in storage
subsystems and preventing </span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">spam.</span></div>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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