Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies, and Applications

Ahmed, Ahmedin Mohammed; Qiu, Tie; Xia, Feng; Jedari, Behrouz; Abolfazli, Saeid

doi:10.1109/access.2014.2319823

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“…For example, the number of contacts made between exhibitors and delegates can be assess by noting the number of business cards exchanged or by each delegate having a unique QR code on their badge and each exhibitor having a QR code reader on their phone. Recent advancements in event-based mobile social networks (MSNs) have proved helpful in planning, organizing social events like meetings, conferences, and tradeshows (Ahmed, Qiu, Xia, Jedari, & Abolfazli, 2014).…”

Section: How Should We Measure Individual Networking Event Value?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Why should I attend? The value of business networking events

Mitchell

Schlegelmilch

Mone

2016

Industrial Marketing Management

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Despite an increasing variety of technological means enabling business people to exchange information without ever meeting in person, the events industry continues to grow. To help to understand why this is, a study was conducted based on 35 in-depth interviews with attendees and event organizers. The findings highlight the main types of value individuals extracted and identify the implications for measurement practice for what, where, how and when to assess value. These insights can help in determining the ROI of networking events for businesses.

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Section: How Should We Measure Individual Networking Event Value?mentioning

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Why should I attend? The value of business networking events

Mitchell

Schlegelmilch

Mone

2016

Industrial Marketing Management

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“…A comprehensive survey on MSNs is presented in [89], where aspects related to platforms, solutions, and designs of the overall system architecture are discussed. A special type of MSNs are the eventbased MSNs [90], allowing mobile users to create events to share group messaging, locations, and multimedia data among participants. Finally, from MSNs we distinguish the Mobile Ad-hoc Social Networks (MASNs), which are emerging as a self-configuring and self-organizing social networking paradigm.…”

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A Survey on Vehicular Social Networks

Vegni

Loscrì

2015

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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This paper surveys recent literature on vehicular social networks that are a particular class of vehicular ad hoc networks, characterized by social aspects and features. Starting from this pillar, we investigate perspectives on next-generation vehicles under the assumption of social networking for vehicular applications (i.e., safety and entertainment applications). This paper plays a role as a starting point about socially inspired vehicles and mainly related applications, as well as communication techniques. Vehicular communications can be considered the "first social network for automobiles" since each driver can share data with other neighbors. For instance, heavy traffic is a common occurrence in some areas on the roads (e.g., at intersections, taxi loading/unloading areas, and so on); as a consequence, roads become a popular social place for vehicles to connect to each other. Human factors are then involved in vehicular ad hoc networks, not only due to the safety-related applications but also for entertainment purposes. Social characteristics and human behavior largely impact on vehicular ad hoc networks, and this arises to the vehicular social networks, which are formed when vehicles (individuals) "socialize" and share common interests. In this paper, we provide a survey on main features of vehicular social networks, from novel emerging technologies to social aspects used for mobile applications, as well as main issues and challenges. Vehicular social networks are described as decentralized opportunistic communication networks formed among vehicles. They exploit mobility aspects, and basics of traditional social networks, in order to create novel approaches of message exchange through the detection of dynamic social structures. An overview of the main state-of-the-art on safety and entertainment applications relying on social networking solutions is also provided

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“…2) Traffic Management Using a Single-Copy: In social opportunistic networks, where human-to-human or node-to-node communication takes place, a significant problem can arise from biased resource allocation. Connections among devices are only occasionally available in opportunistic networks [14]. Besides, few devices being handheld devices are dependent on the movement of humans in the network.…”

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Socially-aware congestion control in ad-hoc networks: Current status and the way forward

Liaqat

Ali

Qadir

et al. 2019

Future Generation Computer Systems

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Ad-hoc social networks (ASNETs) represent a special type of traditional ad-hoc network in which a user's social properties (such as the social connections and communications metadata as well as application data) are leveraged for offering enhanced services in a distributed infrastructureless environments. However, the wireless medium, due to limited bandwidth, can easily suffer from the problem of congestion when social metadata and application data are exchanged among nodes-a problem that is compounded by the fact that some nodes may act selfishly and not share its resources. While a number of congestion control schemes have been proposed for the traditional ad-hoc networks, there has been limited focus on incorporating social awareness into congestion control schemes. We revisit the existing traditional ad-hoc congestion control and data distribution protocols and motivate the need for embedding social awareness into these protocols to improve performance. We report that although some work is available in opportunistic network that uses sociallyaware techniques to control the congestion issue, this area is largely unexplored and warrants more research attention. In this regards, we highlight the current research progress and identify multiple future directions of research.

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Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies, and Applications

Cited by 29 publications

References 86 publications

Why should I attend? The value of business networking events

Why should I attend? The value of business networking events

A Survey on Vehicular Social Networks

Socially-aware congestion control in ad-hoc networks: Current status and the way forward

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