Title :
I seek for knowledge: Exploiting social properties in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Author :
Belle, Sebastian Kay ; Islam, Muhammad Arshad ; Waldvogel, Marcel
Author_Institution :
Distrib. Syst. Lab., Univ. of Konstanz, Konstanz
Abstract :
New social networks are born each day, at a formal conference, at informal social gathering, at family reunions etc. Internet has already been playing an important role in modern way of socialising. But it is still not the optimal way of interaction as one has to be very active updating profiles. With the easy access to mobile devices, modern technologies have now started to adopt to new ways of socialising. mobile devices accompany their users almost all the time, they can record and observe their users behavior as well as gather information about their social circle. Therefore, they can help users to get information from contacts, that they probably not even know. In this paper we put our efforts towards the initial design of an architecture that will sniff for information around the user´s surrounding, leveraging useful answers on their demand.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; mobile computing; mobile radio; social networking (online); Internet; informal social gathering; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile devices; social networks; Databases; Facebook; Internet; Laboratories; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile handsets; MySpace; Planets; Social network services; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Days, 2008. WD '08. 1st IFIP
Conference_Location :
Dubai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2828-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2829-8
DOI :
10.1109/WD.2008.4812924