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With the increasing popularization of personal hand-held mobile
devices, more people use them to establish network connectivity and
to query and share data among themselves in the absence of network
infrastructure, creating mobile social networks (MSNet). Since
users are only intermittently connected to MSNets, user mobility
should be exploited to bridge network partitions and forward data.
Currently, data route/forward approaches for such intermittently
connected networks are commonly "store-carry-and-forward" schemes,
which exploit the physical user movements to carry data around the
network and overcome path disconnection. And since the source and
destination may be far away from each other, the delay for the
destination to receive the data from the source may be long. MSNets
can be viewed as one type of socially-aware delay tolerant networks
(DTNs). Observed from social networks, the contact frequencies are
probably different between two friends and two strangers, and this
difference should be taken into consideration when designing data
dissemination and query schemes in MSNets. In this book, the
fundamental concepts of MSNets are introduced including the
background, key features and potential applications of MSNets,
while also presenting research topics, such as, MSNets as realistic
social contact traces and user mobility models. Because the
ultimate goal is to establish networks that allow mobile users to
quickly and efficiently access interesting information, particular
attention is paid to data dissemination and query schemes in
subsequent sections. Combined with geography information, the
concepts of community and centrality are employed from a social
network perspective to propose several data dissemination and query
schemes, and further use real social contact traces to evaluate
their performance, demonstrating that such schemes achieve better
performance when exploiting more social relationships between
users.
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