TY - GEN
T1 - A dynamic community creation mechanism in opportunistic mobile social networks
AU - Zhang, Daqing
AU - Wang, Zhu
AU - Guo, Bin
AU - Zhou, Xingshe
AU - Raychoudhury, Vaskar
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - Web-based social networking services enable likeminded people to collaborate and socialize with each other. With rich sensing and communication capabilities, mobile phones provide new possibilities for enhancing face-to-face social interaction among people who are both socially and physically close to each other. Research challenges arise as how to exploit the characteristics of people's mobility patterns and form a social community with a specific goal in the mobile environment. In this paper, we present SOCKER - a dynamic community creation mechanism based on social-aware broker selection strategies. SOCKER gradually forms a mobile social community by dynamically selecting a broker during each opportunistic encounter, and the selected broker disseminates community creation requests to the encountered users for match-making. Based on real human mobility traces, extensive evaluations are conducted showing that SOCKER achieves high community completion ratio as well as high user social satisfaction, while incurring a small overhead.
AB - Web-based social networking services enable likeminded people to collaborate and socialize with each other. With rich sensing and communication capabilities, mobile phones provide new possibilities for enhancing face-to-face social interaction among people who are both socially and physically close to each other. Research challenges arise as how to exploit the characteristics of people's mobility patterns and form a social community with a specific goal in the mobile environment. In this paper, we present SOCKER - a dynamic community creation mechanism based on social-aware broker selection strategies. SOCKER gradually forms a mobile social community by dynamically selecting a broker during each opportunistic encounter, and the selected broker disseminates community creation requests to the encountered users for match-making. Based on real human mobility traces, extensive evaluations are conducted showing that SOCKER achieves high community completion ratio as well as high user social satisfaction, while incurring a small overhead.
KW - Community creation
KW - Mobile social community
KW - Opportunistic networks
U2 - 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.189
DO - 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.189
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84862953329
SN - 9780769545783
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011
SP - 509
EP - 514
BT - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2011 and 2011 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2011
Y2 - 9 October 2011 through 11 October 2011
ER -