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Social-aware data dissemination in opportunistic mobile social networks

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  • Yibo Yang

    (School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China)

  • Honglin Zhao

    (School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China)

  • Jinlong Ma

    (School of Information Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, P. R. China)

  • Xiaowei Han

    (School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, P. R. China)

Abstract

Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks (OMSNs), formed by mobile users with social relationships and characteristics, enhance spontaneous communication among users that opportunistically encounter each other. Such networks can be exploited to improve the performance of data forwarding. Discovering optimal relay nodes is one of the important issues for efficient data propagation in OMSNs. Although traditional centrality definitions to identify the nodes features in network, they cannot identify effectively the influential nodes for data dissemination in OMSNs. Existing protocols take advantage of spatial contact frequency and social characteristics to enhance transmission performance. However, existing protocols have not fully exploited the benefits of the relations and the effects between geographical information, social features and user interests. In this paper, we first evaluate these three characteristics of users and design a routing protocol called Geo-Social-Interest (GSI) protocol to select optimal relay nodes. We compare the performance of GSI using real INFOCOM06 data sets. The experiment results demonstrate that GSI overperforms the other protocols with highest data delivery ratio and low communication overhead.

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  • Yibo Yang & Honglin Zhao & Jinlong Ma & Xiaowei Han, 2017. "Social-aware data dissemination in opportunistic mobile social networks," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 28(09), pages 1-16, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:28:y:2017:i:09:n:s0129183117501157
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183117501157
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    1. Azizah Assiri & Hassen Sallay, 2024. "Efficient Privacy-Aware Forwarding for Enhanced Communication Privacy in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-28, January.

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