A novel distributed scheme for building spontaneous social communities over manets

摘要

This paper presents a novel distributed scheme for the dynamic construction and management of spontaneous social communities (SSCs) of mobile users in ad hoc networks. A novel model for SSCs that captures their unique dynamic nature, in terms of community structure and interest in different hot-topics over time is first presented. These time-varying interests are represented through a distributively calculated community profile prototype that reflects dominant characteristics of community members. This prototype is then employed to facilitate the identification of new members. Preliminary performance results demonstrate the achieved community stability and content sharing efficiency.