Martin Xavier Tchembe ; Maurice Tchoupe Tchendji - Building a publish/subscribe information dissemination platform for hybrid mobile ad-hoc social networks over android devices

arima:9136 - Revue Africaine de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées, June 4, 2023, Volume 36 - Special issue CRI 2021 - 2022 - https://doi.org/10.46298/arima.9136
Building a publish/subscribe information dissemination platform for hybrid mobile ad-hoc social networks over android devicesArticle

Authors: Martin Xavier Tchembe 1; Maurice Tchoupe Tchendji 1,2

Mobile ad-hoc social networks (MASNs) have been the subject of several research studies over the past two decades. They allow stations located in a small geographical area to be connected without the need for a network infrastructure and offer them the possibility to communicate any time anywhere. To communicate, stations regularly broadcast their interests in the form of keywords. Stations with a high degree of similarity among their keywords can communicate with each other. However, the coverage of MASNs is limited to a small geographical area, due to the limited communication range of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) stations. In this paper, we present an architecture and implementation of hybrid mobile ad-hoc social networks (MASNs coupled to infrastructure networks) of Android mobile devices for information dissemination. Stations can use the infrastructure network to communicate and rely on the mobile ad-hoc network when the infrastructure is not available.Rather than communicating synchronously as this is the case in the similar works found in the literature, in our approach, the stations communicate using a publish/subscribe communication protocol, which is perfectly suited to this type of network thanks to the decoupling in time and space it provides.


Volume: Volume 36 - Special issue CRI 2021 - 2022
Published on: June 4, 2023
Accepted on: November 23, 2022
Submitted on: February 25, 2022
Keywords: Hybrid Mobile Ad-hoc Social Networks,Publish/subscribe,Topics,Information dissemination,Nearby Connections,Réseaux sociaux mobiles ad hoc hybrides,Publication/abonnement,Sujets,Dissémination de l'information,Nearby Connections,[INFO.INFO-IU]Computer Science [cs]/Ubiquitous Computing,[INFO.INFO-MC]Computer Science [cs]/Mobile Computing,[INFO.INFO-SI]Computer Science [cs]/Social and Information Networks [cs.SI]

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