A Mobile Peer-to-Peer Search and Retrieval Service for Social Networks

Author

Lombera, Isaí Michel ; Moser, Louise E. ; Melliar-Smith, Peter Michael ; Chuang, Yung-Ting

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

24-29 June 2012

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

79

Abstract

This paper describes iTrust over SMS, a peer-to-peer search andretrieval service for social networks of mobile devices. iTrust overSMS enables mobile devices to collaborate with other mobile devices to distribute, search for, and retrieve information using SMS. With iTrust over SMS, there is no centralized search engine or centralized control and, thus, iTrust over SMS is less vulnerable to filtering and censorship by governments, corporations, or other organizations. In this paper, we describe the iTrust over SMS search and retrieval service, as well as participation in the iTrust over SMS social network. We present the user interface of iTrust over SMS, which enables a user to share information with other users, together with use cases of the iTrust over SMS service. We also show how frequent usage of the iTrust over SMS search and retrieval service encourages further participation in the social network.

Keywords

information retrieval; mobile computing; peer-to-peer computing; social networking (online); SMS; iTrust; mobile devices; mobile peer-to-peer search and retrieval service; social networks; user interface; Androids; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Peer to peer computing; Social network services; mobile device; mobile search and retrieval; mobile service; peer-to-peer network; social network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Services (MS), 2012 IEEE First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2881-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MobServ.2012.21

Filename

6263812