MobiSoC: a middleware for mobile social computing applications

Abstract

Abstract. Recently, we started to experience a shift from physical communities to virtual communities, which leads to missed social opportunities in our daily routine. For instance, we are not aware of neighbors with common interests or nearby events. Mobile social computing applications (MSCAs) promise to improve social connectivity in physical communities by leveraging information about people, social relationships, and places. This article presents MobiSoC, a middleware that enables MSCA development and provides a common platform for capturing, managing, and sharing the social state of physical communities.Additionally, it incorporates algorithms that discover previously unknown emergent geo-social patterns to augment this state. To demonstrate MobiSoC's feasibility, we implemented and tested on smart phones two MSCAs for location-based mobile social matching and place-based ad hoc social collaboration. Experimental results showed that MobiSoC can provide good response time for 1000 users. We also demonstrated that an adaptive localization scheme and carefully chosen cryptographic methods can significantly reduce the resource consumption associated with the location engine and security on smart phones. A user study of the mobile social matching application proved that geo-social patterns can double the quality of social matches and that people are willing to share their location with MobiSoC in order to benefit from MSCAs.

Quality-of-Experience (QoE) in Emerging Mobile Social Networks

“…For instance, MobiClique [6] was developed to form ad hoc social networks which enable users to disseminate content using a store-carry-forward technique. Gupta et al [7] presented MobiSoC which is a middleware providing a common platform for capturing, managing, and sharing a social state of physical communities. However, it brings new challenges including how to minimize the end-to-end delay [8], how to achieve high delivery rate [9], how to securely communicate among the mobile users [10], etc.…”

Yarta: A Middleware for Managing Mobile Social Ecosystems

“…Table 1 summarizes the main contributions and drawbacks of existing solutions with respect to the challenges discussed in Section 1. The MobiSoc [10] and MobiClique [16] middleware provide simple data models compared to Yarta MSE model, while the IYOUIT application offers a wide set of concepts to model users' activities and interactions [3]. IYOUIT cannot be considered a middleware since it is provided as a stand-alone application, while MobiSoc and MobiClique both provide open APIs.…”

A methodology for engineering collaborative and ad-hoc mobile applications using SyD middleware

“…JXTA) or IP-based client-server applications (e.g. Jini, Microsoft .NET, and others), and, (iii) middleware infrastructures supporting collaborative application development (Kortuem, 2002;Krebs et al,2003;Cugolaand Picco,2002;Kirdaet al,2002;Yamin et al, 2002;Gupta et al, 2009). …”

“…MOTION (Kirda et al, 2002) is another framework for developing collaborative applications on mobile devices. Newer developments in mobile middleware include developing a mobile middleware for social networking applications (Pietiläinen et al, 2009;Gupta 2009), which falls under the broader category of collaborative applications. Gupta et al (2009) propose MobiSoc, a middleware for mobile social computing applications.…”