An Efficient Mobile Social Network for Enhancing Contents Sharing over Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

The increasing popularity of social networks improves information sharing among different users. Most existing online social networks involve the client/server architecture where each user needs to access to a server for contents sharing with other users. In this paper, we focus on constructing a mobile peer-to-peer based social network. We propose an efficient mobile social network to facilitate contents sharing over mobile ad hoc networks, in which social communities are built based on the interesting keywords, location histories and the current locations of different users. The users with common interest keywords, similar location histories and nearby current location are recommended as friends and connect directly in the mobile social network. The performance results show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of the network management cost and contents search.