A Serverless Instant Messaging Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Urso, Anthony D.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-28 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

75

Abstract

In this paper, the problems facing designers of peer-to-peer instant messaging protocols, specifically those intended to run over mobile ad-hoc networks, are discussed. In particular, the challenges of identity management and presence dissemination are addressed, with an efficient and user-friendly protocol described that solves them. As a side effect, a form of social network mining is offered that allows users of the protocol to be introduced to unfamiliar members of their social network. Finally, a method of grafting a sort of multicast chat room functionality onto the protocol is discussed.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; data mining; electronic messaging; mobile radio; multicast communication; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; social networking (online); identity management; mobile ad-hoc network; multicast chat room functionality; peer-to-peer instant messaging protocol; presence dissemination; serverless instant messaging protocol; social network mining; user-friendly protocol; Ad hoc networks; IP networks; Message service; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Web and internet services; Web server; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; distributed systems; instant messaging; mobile ad-hoc networks; peer-to-peer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Creating Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5), 2010 Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

La Jolla, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4029-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6780-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/C5.2010.9

Filename

5476925