A number of mobile Online Social Networking （OSN） services have appeared in the market in recent times. While most mobile systems benefit greatly from cloud services, centralized servers and communications infrastru...A number of mobile Online Social Networking （OSN） services have appeared in the market in recent times. While most mobile systems benefit greatly from cloud services, centralized servers and communications infrastructure is not always available. Nor are location-based services offered to mobile devices without GPS. To take advantage of cloud and to address these problems, a Wi-Fi based multihop networking system called MoNet is proposed. On top of MONET we propose a privacy-aware geosocial networking service called WiFace. Where there is no infrastructure, a distributed content sharing protocol significantly shortens the relay path, reduces conflicts, and improves data availability. Furthermore, a security mechanism is developed to protect privacy. Comprehensive experiments performed on MoNet show that the system is more than sufficient to support social networking and even audio and video applications.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 90818021, and 9071803National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60828003+3 种基金supported by Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology(TNList)NSF CNS0832120National Basic Research Program of China ("973"Program) under grant No. 2010CB328100the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China ("863"Program) under grant No. 2007AA01Z180
文摘A number of mobile Online Social Networking （OSN） services have appeared in the market in recent times. While most mobile systems benefit greatly from cloud services, centralized servers and communications infrastructure is not always available. Nor are location-based services offered to mobile devices without GPS. To take advantage of cloud and to address these problems, a Wi-Fi based multihop networking system called MoNet is proposed. On top of MONET we propose a privacy-aware geosocial networking service called WiFace. Where there is no infrastructure, a distributed content sharing protocol significantly shortens the relay path, reduces conflicts, and improves data availability. Furthermore, a security mechanism is developed to protect privacy. Comprehensive experiments performed on MoNet show that the system is more than sufficient to support social networking and even audio and video applications.
