Mobile social networks: Architectures, social properties, and key research challenges

N Vastardis, K Yang - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile social networks (MSNs) are mobile communication systems focusing not only on the
behaviour but also on the social needs of the users. In a broader view all mobile systems …

Applications, architectures, and protocol design issues for mobile social networks: A survey

N Kayastha, D Niyato, P Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobile social network (MSN) combines techniques in social science and wireless
communications for mobile networking. The MSN can be considered as a system which …

Architecture of hybrid mobile social networks for efficient content delivery

R Akhtar, S Leng, I Memon, M Ali, L Zhang - Wireless Personal …, 2015 - Springer
Content delivery is one of the most important technologies used in Mobile Social Networks
(MSNs). Smart devices could enable mobile users to create and use a rich set of services …

Controlled coalitional games for cooperative mobile social networks

D Niyato, P Wang, W Saad… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile social networks have been introduced as a new efficient (ie, minimizing bandwidth
usage) and effective (ie, minimizing the delay or maximizing the number of target recipients) …

Optimal content transmission policy in publish-subscribe mobile social networks

D Niyato, P Wang, E Hossain… - 2010 IEEE Global …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of dynamic content distribution in publish-subscribe mobile social
networks. Mobile users subscribe to the content provider. Then, when new content is …

A negotiation framework for content distribution in mobile transient networks

B Molina, SF Pileggi, M Esteve, CE Palau - Journal of Network and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Transient networks are spontaneous networks that appear for a short period of time in order
to provide basic services such as connectivity and content distribution among a small …

Improvement of content delivery in mobile social networks

R Akhtar, S Leng, F Wu, I Memon - … International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the framework of distributed buffer storage aided Mobile Social
Networks (MSN). Based on this, we propose a new solution in intermittently connected …

Trust-based collaboration service framework: A platform for communication and content sharing

S Thota, R Anantharangachar, S Dixit… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discusses a novel framework for trust-based multidevice collaboration services.
This framework opens up significant scope for applications and collaboration opportunities …

Collaborative algorithm with a green touch

L Oliveira, D Hadj Sadok, G Gonçalves, R Abreu… - Mobile and Ubiquitous …, 2012 - Springer
Discovery and announcement processes are regular tasks in ubiquitous scenarios, since
they are important to support devices' self-adaptation. However, devices enable a multitude …

Making many people happy: Greedy solutions for content distribution

Y Wang, Y Guo, J Wu - 2011 International Conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increase in multimedia content makes providing good quality of service in wireless
networks a challenging problem. Consider a set of users, with different content interests …