Channel allocation for social networking features on publish/subscribe-based mobile application

Developing mobile applications with social networking features often requires application specific server-side code to handle interactions and communication among users. This paper proposes a model for mobile applications with social networking features that are developed on top of commonly available publish/subscribe service, thus alleviating the need of developing application specific server to support the mobile apps. The mobile application that we develop has social networking features, such as friendship, location sharing, and chatting, which are implemented using publish/subscribe model. This paper also describes channel allocation which can be used for system with restrictions in maximum number of subscribers. Result shows that social networking features in mobile application can be implemented using publish/subscribe model. There is no bandwidth wasted in system without restriction. Nevertheless, result still yield low scalability and need some further developments in restricted system.