TY - GEN
T1 - HYChat
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Smart City, SmartCity 2015
AU - Zuo, Jinhang
AU - Wang, Yufeng
AU - Jin, Qun
AU - Ma, Jianhua
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61171092, and the JiangSu Educational Bureau Project under Grant 14KJA510004, and Prospective Research Project on Future Networks (JiangSu Future Networks Innovation Institute).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Recently, mobile social networks in proximity (MSNP) has gained tremendous attentions, which explicitly explores the physical proximity of individuals, and greatly facilitates their face-to-face interactions through direct communications. Generally, Proximity awareness can be enabled with two methodologies: Over-The-Top (OTT), in which the centralized server determines the proximity based on users' location updates and interests, and intermediate the interactions between proximal users, Device-to-Device (D2D), which allows two devices in radio range to discovery and communicate directly. This paper designs and implements a novel hybrid interactive chatting system, HYChat, which integrates the merits of both methodologies: simultaneously support direct interaction through WiFi Direct when individuals are within each other's radio range, when detecting two devices are out of range of WiFi Direct (e.g., due to individual's movement), it will switch to online OTT mode automatically to continue the interactive chat. Specifically, two key challenges in HYChat are preliminarily solved in this paper: profile matching prior to establishing connection among devices (i.e., layer 2 profile matching), and the smooth switching between D2D and OTT modes. The prototype of HYChat on Android phones illustrates its effectiveness. In brief, the hybrid system HYChat could greatly facilitate individuals' social interaction in physical proximity.
AB - Recently, mobile social networks in proximity (MSNP) has gained tremendous attentions, which explicitly explores the physical proximity of individuals, and greatly facilitates their face-to-face interactions through direct communications. Generally, Proximity awareness can be enabled with two methodologies: Over-The-Top (OTT), in which the centralized server determines the proximity based on users' location updates and interests, and intermediate the interactions between proximal users, Device-to-Device (D2D), which allows two devices in radio range to discovery and communicate directly. This paper designs and implements a novel hybrid interactive chatting system, HYChat, which integrates the merits of both methodologies: simultaneously support direct interaction through WiFi Direct when individuals are within each other's radio range, when detecting two devices are out of range of WiFi Direct (e.g., due to individual's movement), it will switch to online OTT mode automatically to continue the interactive chat. Specifically, two key challenges in HYChat are preliminarily solved in this paper: profile matching prior to establishing connection among devices (i.e., layer 2 profile matching), and the smooth switching between D2D and OTT modes. The prototype of HYChat on Android phones illustrates its effectiveness. In brief, the hybrid system HYChat could greatly facilitate individuals' social interaction in physical proximity.
KW - Centralized server
KW - Device to Device (D2D)
KW - Mobile socail networks in Proximity (MSNP)
KW - WiFi Direct
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U2 - 10.1109/SmartCity.2015.115
DO - 10.1109/SmartCity.2015.115
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84973882765
T3 - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City, SmartCity 2015, Held Jointly with 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2015, 5th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2015, 2015 International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, DataCom 2015, 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing, SC2 2015
SP - 471
EP - 477
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City, SmartCity 2015, Held Jointly with 8th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2015, 5th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2015, 2015 International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, DataCom 2015, 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing, SC2 2015
A2 - Liu, Xingang
A2 - Wang, Peicheng
A2 - Wang, Yufeng
A2 - Dong, Mianxiong
A2 - Hsu, Robert C. H.
A2 - Xia, Feng
A2 - Deng, Yuhui
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 December 2015 through 21 December 2015
ER -