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WiFace: A Secure GeoSocial Networking System Using Wi-Fi Based Multihop MANET
Lan Zhang, Xuan Ding, Zhiguo Wan, Ming Gu, and Xiangyang Li
ZTE Communications    2011, 9 (1): 27-32.  
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A number of mobile Online Social Networking (OSN) services have appeared in the market in recent times. While most mobile systems benefit greatly from cloud services, centralized servers and communications infrastructure is not always available. Nor are location-based services offered to mobile devices without GPS. To take advantage of cloud and to address these problems, a Wi-Fi based multihop networking system called MoNet is proposed. On top of MoNET we propose a privacy-aware geosocial networking service called WiFace. Where there is no infrastructure, a distributed content sharing protocol significantly shortens the relay path, reduces conflicts, and improves data availability. Furthermore, a security mechanism is developed to protect privacy. Comprehensive experiments performed on MoNet show that the system is more than sufficient to support social networking and even audio and video applications.
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