Towards a smart campus with mobile social networking

Zhiwen Yu, Yunji Liang, Bukan Xu, Yue Yang, Bin Guo

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Abstract

With the development of wireless communication, the popularity of smart phones, the increasing of social networking services, mobile social networking has become a hot research topic. The characteristics of mobile devices and requirements of services in social environments raise a challenge on building a platform for mobile social services. In this paper, we elaborate a flexible system architecture based on the service-oriented specification to support social interactions in campus-wide environments. In the client side, we designed a mobile middleware to collect social contexts such as the proximity, the cell phone log etc. The server backend, on the other hand, aggregates such contexts, analyses social connections among users and provides social services to facilitate social interactions. A prototype of mobile social networking system is deployed on campus, and several applications are implemented based on the proposed architecture to demonstrate the effectiveness of the architecture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011
Pages162-169
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2011 and 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2011 - Dalian, China
Duration: 19 Oct 201122 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2011 and 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period19/10/1122/10/11

Keywords

  • Mobile Social Networking
  • Smart Campus
  • Social Interaction

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