Enhancing spontaneous interaction in opportunistic mobile social networks

Bin Guo (1) , Daqing Zhang (2, 3, 4) , Zhiwen Yu (1) , Xingshe Zhou (1) , Zhangbing Zhou (2, 5)

1 SCS-NPU - School of Computer Science - Northwestern Polytechnical University
2 TSP - RST - Département Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications
3 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5 School of Information Engineering [Beijing]

With the development of advanced mobile devices and social network services, mobile social network (MSN) has become popular in recent years. This paper we present a new perspective of MSN, the opportunistic MSN, which aims to enhance spontaneous interaction/communication among people that opportunistically encounter in the physical world, without any infrastructure support. We present the motivation of opportunistic MSN, explore its underpinning and the key concepts. Further, we describe our ongoing practice regarding to this emerging research area.

Mots clés: Smart phones; Mobile social network; Opportunistic community; Spontaneous social interaction

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Bin Guo, Daqing Zhang, Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Zhangbing Zhou. Enhancing spontaneous interaction in opportunistic mobile social networks. Communications in mobile computing, 2012, pp.1-6. ⟨hal-00797751⟩