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The Future of the Internet Is Social
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The IMDEA Networks Institute has announced the successful completion of the European research project enhanced COntent distribUtion with Social Information (eCOUSIN). The project's findings met the research objective, according to European Commission reviewers. The main goal was to design an innovative network architecture that improves the efficiency of online social networks as well as the quality of the experience for users.
Network prediction enables avoidance of performance outages by planning solutions before problems become unavoidable, or, if resource availability permits, users can take advantage of temporary profitable conditions to balance future quality degradation. The idea was to exploit the growing popularity of online social content and its interdependencies. ECOUSIN focused on data collection and analysis, scalability of network infrastructure, linking network and content-related functionalities, and social information-driven algorithm design.
Nine partners from six countries and four universities participated in the project, including Madrid-based IMDEA, which contributed passive and lightweight measurement tools, performance models, and predictors for mobile networks, in addition to algorithms for resource allocation optimization.
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