Content exchange among mobile tourists using users' interest and place-centric activities
- Authors: Kaisar, Shahriar , Kamruzzaman, Joarder , Karmakar, Gour , Gondal, Iqbal
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2015 10th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (Icics); Singapore, Singapore; 2nd-4th December 2015 p. 1-5
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- Description: In this work we investigate decentralized content exchange among tourists who are mostly strangers, depicts irregular movement patterns and most likely not to have any prior social relationship or difficult to establish any in a tourist spot. We incorporate user's interest, trustworthy online recommendations, and place-centric information to facilitate content exchange in such tourist destinations. The proposed administrator selection policy considers stay probability in activities, connectivity among nodes and their available resources. We have done extensive simulation using network simulator NS3 on a popular tourist spot in Australia that provides a number of activities. Our proposed approach shows promising results in exchanging contents among users measured in terms of content hit and delivery success rate as well as latency. The success rate is comparable to those reported in the literature for cases where social relationship exist and nodes follow regular predictable movement patterns.
Content sharing among visitors with irregular movement patterns in visiting hotspots
- Authors: Kaisar, Shahriar , Kamruzzaman, Joarder , Karmakar, Gour , Gondal, Iqbal
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2015 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA); Cambridge, United States; 28th - 30th September 2015; published in Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015 p. 230-234
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- Description: Smart mobile devices have become immensely popular among the people worldwide and provide a new platform for generating and sharing contents. The centralized and hybrid architectures for content sharing require constant Internet connection, increase traffic and incur costs. To address these issues several content sharing approaches have been proposed using the decentralized architecture. Most of the proposed approaches use spatio-temporal regularity and pre-existing social relationships of the users to predict their movements and facilitate content sharing. However, there are scenarios such as visiting hotspots where regular movement patterns or established social relationships among people might not exist. Content sharing in such scenarios has not been addressed yet in literature and existing prediction based approaches are ineffectual. This study focuses on facilitating content sharing in the afore-mentioned scenarios. We take account of user interests, recommendations from on-line social networks, hotspot specific activities and other relevant information to construct communities which facilitate content sharing. For each community an administrator, who maintains content and member lists and render directory services, is selected based on stay probability, interest score, battery lifetime and device configuration. Simulation results show that our proposed approach attains high content hit and success rate and low latency in delivery which is nearly comparable to those proposed for scenarios with regular predictable movement patterns reported in literature.