BeWater: Effective Protesters Navigate Watersheds in Street Networks

2026-09-15

AI Summary

研究提出BeWater协议，利用街道长度、餐馆数量等城市信息指导抗议者在有限通讯条件下有效聚集。

Abstract

During social movements, protesters need to gather with limited communication means and limited knowledge other than what they observe in their direct surroundings. We propose BeWater, a fully distributed walking protocol that achieves gathering thanks to city information like street length, number of restaurants, number of lanes, or street names. Even though using only one of these observables performs poorly, we show that combining them in more advanced tactics rapidly leads to groups of significant sizes. To do so, our work leverages OpenStreetMap data to perform experiments on several real-world cities.

Problem

• protesters
• gathering
• street networks
• city information

Innovation

• Distributed Walking Protocol
• Protesters Gathering
• City Information Utilization