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Opportunistic networks (ONs) are an extension of mobile ad hoc networks where nodes are generally human-carried mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, which do not have a global view of the network. They only possess knowledge from the nodes they encounter, so well-defined paths between a source and a destination do not necessarily exist. There are plenty of real-life uses for ONs, including, but not limited to, disaster management, smart cities, floating content, advertising, crowd management, context-aware platforms, distributed social networks, or data offloading and mobile cloud computing. In order to implement and test a routing or dissemination solution for opportunistic networks, simulators are employed. They have the benefit of allowing developers to analyze and tweak their solutions with reduced costs, before deploying them in a working environment. For this reason, in this chapter we present MobEmu, an opportunistic network simulator which can be used to evaluate a user-created routing or dissemination algorithm on a desired mobility trace or synthetic model.

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    http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/80657.

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    https://allseenalliance.org/framework.

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    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52367.

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    https://github.com/raduciobanu/mobemu.

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    http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/.

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    https://www.nsnam.org.

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    https://sites.google.com/site/dtnresgroup/home/code/dtn2documentation.

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    https://omnetpp.org.

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This chapter is based upon work from COST Action IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

The research presented is also supported by national projects DataWay (PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2731) and MobiWay (PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0321).

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Ciobanu, RI., Marin, RC., Dobre, C. (2018). MobEmu: A Framework to Support Decentralized Ad-Hoc Networking. In: Kołodziej, J., Pop, F., Dobre, C. (eds) Modeling and Simulation in HPC and Cloud Systems. Studies in Big Data, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73767-6_6

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