Mobile Online Social Networks (mOSNs) have recently grown in popularity. With the ubiquitous use of mobile devices and a rapid shift of technology and access to OSNs, it is important to examine the impact of mobile OSNs from a privacy standpoint. We present a taxonomy of ways to study privacy leakage and report on the current status of known leakages. We find that all mOSNs in our study exhibit...

book social media are reading communities primarily developed as online social networks. this study aims to find precise criteria and indicators for evaluation of book social network and examine and rank the most popular book social networks. the sample population included 10 english and two persian book/reading social networks publicly available on the web. a checklist containing 9 main criter...

--The video traffic over mobile networks have been increasing enormously but the wireless link capacity cannot keep up with the traffic. This gap results in poor service quality of video streaming over mobile networks. Inculcating cloud computing technology into mobile networks, a new framework is introduced called Secured AMES-Cloud containing two parts: AMoV (Adaptive Mobile Video streaming) ...

Community detection in social networks attracts a lot of attention in the recent years. Existing methods always depict the relationship of two nodes using the temporary connection. However, these temporary connections cannot be fully recognized as the real relationships when the history connections among nodes are considered. For example, a casual visit in Facebook cannot be seen as an establis...

The capabilities of mobile phones enable them to participate in popular social network applications. In this paper we de ne phonebook-centric social networks. The key di erence between such networks and usual social networks is allowing synchronization between the phonebook of the mobile phone and the social network. By the synchronization the goal is to identify the persons listed in the phone...

Various mobile social applications have proposed the use of ad-hoc network connectivity as a means of detecting user encounters and shared social contexts. These applications range from simple opportunistic information sharing to techniques for collaborative filtering in mobile settings. However, it can be difficult and costly to test the underlying assumption that repeated physical copresence ...

Cellular networks are facing severe traffic overloads due to the proliferation of smart handheld devices and traffic hungry applications. This paper tries to offload the cellular network traffic through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation formed by the short-range communication technologies in the smart phones (e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). We design an Enhanced Greedy algorithm fo...

Social networks play an important role in the lives of children and young people. Along with the high penetration of mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets among the younger generation, there is an increasing use of social networks already in elementary school. The paper presents the results of research, which was realized at schools in the Hradec Králové region. In this research, ...

Mobile social applications have emerged in recent years. They explore social connections among mobile users in a variety of novel scenarios, including friend finding, message routing, and content sharing. However, efficiently supporting resource-demanding delay-sensitive streaming applications on the mobile platform remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we study collaborative VoD-type...

Mobile social networking is social networking where one or more individuals of similar interests or commonalities, conversing and connecting with one another using the mobile phone. With the development and proliferation of smart phone devices and social network systems such as Facebook and MySpace, research on mobile social network gains huge attention from the academic community. The migratio...