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Bio-Inspired Computing and Networking
density of such devices is assumed to be low, so that the network is disconnected in
most time instants, and (pairwise) communications take place only whenever two
devices get within mutual communication range. Such contacts are opportunistically
exploited to spread information content in the system. We also assume the presence
of a potentially large set of information sources, which may inject content items
into the system. Content items are treated as messages, and characterized by two
components. The first one is a header, which contains a semantic description of
the content of the message payload. The header is used for matching purposes.
The second one is the payload, which contains the actual data. Each ...