  Over the past decade, online social networks (OSNs) such as Twitter and
Facebook have thrived and experienced rapid growth to over 1 billion users. A
major evolution would be to leverage the characteristics of OSNs to evaluate
the effectiveness of the many routing schemes developed by the research
community in real-world scenarios. In this demo, we showcase AlleyOop Social, a
secure delay tolerant networking research platform that serves as a real-life
mobile social networking application for iOS devices. AlleyOop Social allows
users to interact, publish messages, and discover others that share common
interests in an intermittent network using Bluetooth, peer-to-peer WiFi, and
infrastructure WiFi. The research platform serves as an overlay application for
the Secure Opportunistic Schemes (SOS) middleware which allows different
routing schemes to be easily implemented relieving the burden of security and
connection establishment.
