Barun Saha's blog on AI and Networks

Opportunistic Mobile Networks: Advances and Applications is our forthcoming textbook to be published by Springer in 2016. This book is a result of our years of experience in research and development in this domain. #TheOMNBook, if you may say, deals with fundamental challenges in OMNs as well as contemporary research issues. These include, but not limited to, routing, mobility, cooperation, heterogeneity, and emotions. An entire chapter is dedicated to protocol development and testing using the ONE simulator. #TheOMNBook is shaped in a way to cater both beginning and advanced level readers. Contextual examples are provided to ensure better understanding of related topics. The chapters come with plenty of hands-on exercises. Several illustrations and other visual elements are used to make reading the book a pleasant experience. Whether you are a seasoned researcher looking for novel cross-dimensional ideas or a beginner to this field, give #TheOMNBook a try! Learn more about our...

While simulating scenarios with the ONE simulator, one typically defines one or more network interfaces, and add them to the nodes as required. This use case prevails in most of the scenarios. However, a drawback here is that different network interfaces are mutually incompatible — an interface of type 1 can't communicate with any interface not of type 1. Under certain circumstances, it might be required to control the transmission range of one or more network interfaces dynamically from within the simulation. For example, in one of my works, " On emotional aspects in Mission-Oriented Opportunistic Networks ", I have considered the case where users occasionally turn off their device radios based on their contemporary emotions. In particular, the following shows how to set the radio range to 0: ModuleCommunicationBus comBus = host.getComBus(); // Store the original radio range the first time it is reset if (this.originalRadioRange == -1) { this.originalRadioRange = ...