Implementation of a Reputation System for Pervasive Social Networking

Author

Chen, Yu ; Yan, Zheng ; Niemi, Valtteri

Author_Institution

Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

857

Lastpage

862

Abstract

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is becoming a practical platform for pervasive social networking. People chat with each other via MANET for instant social activities. How to help mobile users to build up trust in such an environment is becoming an important issue. We develop a reputation system for pervasive social networking. We implement it by applying Nokia N900 smartphones as MANET nodes based on a distributed energy-efficient social networking platform. Our system can indicate each user´s local reputation during chatting. It also provides detailed reputation information and supports on-chat voting and afterwards voting. This demo paper introduces the system design and its principal functionalities.

Keywords

Internet; mobile ad hoc networks; social networking (online); telecommunication security; trusted computing; ubiquitous computing; MANET nodes; Nokia N900 smartphones; mobile ad hoc network; pervasive social networking; reputation system; social activities; Communities; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; Social network services; Visualization; MANET; Pervasive Social Networking; Reputation System; Trust;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2011 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2135-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TrustCom.2011.115

Filename

6120908