iZone: A Location-Based Mobile Social Networking System

Author

Cheng, Rui ; Yang, Zhuo ; Xia, Feng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Software, Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

38

Abstract

The rapid development of wireless technology, the extensive use of mobile phones and the availability of location information are facilitating personalized location-based applications. Easy to carry, easy to use and easy to buy, smart phones with certain software are of great advantage. Consequently, mobile social networking (MSN) systems have emerged rapidly, being a revolution for our everyday life. Based on the analysis of general requirements of MSN and location-based services (LBS), this paper presents the design of iZone, a mobile social networking system, as well as a prototype implementation. This platform exploits mobile GIS (Geographic Information Systems), LBS and J2ME technologies, combining geographical data to display map on mobile phones. It can provide a number of social networking services via smart phones.

Keywords

Java; geographic information systems; mobile computing; social networking (online); J2ME technologies; iZone; location based services; mobile GIS; mobile social networking; Information services; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Social network services; Web sites; location-based services; mobile geographic information systems; mobile social networking; smart phone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), 2010 Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9482-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAAP.2010.67

Filename

5715059