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Device to Device (D2D) based mobile social networking in proximity (MSNP) has witnessed great development on smartphones. Message forwarding/data routing in MSNP relies on the movement of individuals and their encounter opportunities to relay data to the destination, so-called store-carry-forward (SCF) mode. Due to lacking continuous network connectivity and must handle dynamic topology, message forwarding...
With the popularity of mobile Internet, smart phones and location-based services, Mobile Social Network in Proximity (MSNP) has attracted more and more attentions, for which trustworthy service discovery and its associated latency are two important issues. In this paper, after overviewing MSNP and trustworthiness for service discovery in MSNP, we discuss the major issues and potential solutions of...
Proximity awareness, the ability to actively (or passively) and continuously search for relevant value in one's physical proximity, is at the core of mobile revolution that is changing the way we interact with people and things around us. Especially, Device-to-Device (D2D) (peer-to-peer (P2P)) solutions support infrastructure-free and self-organized proximity services, and have great commercial potential...
Nowadays, most popular social networking services adopt centralized architecture, in which continual Internet connectivity is prerequisite for each user to exploit those services, and centralized servers are used for storage and processing of all application/context data, even though mobile users are within proximity area (like campus, event spot, and community), and can directly exchange media through...
Recently, mobile social networking applications have gained tremendous attention, which free users from face-to-monitor life, while they still can share information and stay in touch with their friends on the go. However most MSN applications regard mobile terminals just as entry points to existing social networks, depend on centralized servers (for storage and processing of all application/context...
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