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Contribution to Book
Towards Trustworthy Mobile Social Networking
Mobile Social Networking: An Innovative Approach (2013)
  • Zheng Yan, Xidian University/Aalto University
  • Valtteri Niemi, University of Turku
  • Yu Chen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
  • Peng Zhang, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Raimo Kantola, Aalto University
Abstract
Self-organized networks based on mobile devices, e.g., mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), are becoming a practical platform for mobile social networking. People, either familiar or strangers, communicate with each other via such a network for instant social activities. How to help mobile users to build up trust in mobile social networking is becoming an important and interesting issue. Trust concerns not only security, but also privacy, as well as quality of social networking experiences. It relates to many properties that are essential for establishing a trust relationship in ephemeral and dynamically changed mobile social environments. This book chapter reviews the literature with regard to how to build up trust in mobile social networking. We explore whether mobile social networking is demanded, considering many existing popular Internet social networking services. Based on a need assessment survey, we propose a trust management framework that supports context-aware trust/reputation generation, trustworthy content recommendations, secure communications, unwanted traffic control, user privacy recommendation and preservation, and other trust and privacy enhancement technologies. Simulations, prototype implementation, and trial experiments further prove the effectiveness of proposed solutions.
Keywords
  • Trust Management,
  • Trust Level,
  • Reputation System,
  • Query Node,
  • Mobile Social Networking
Publication Date
October 4, 2013
Editor
Alvin Chin and Daqing Zhang
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
978-1-4614-8578-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8579-7_9
Citation Information
Zheng Yan, Valtteri Niemi, Yu Chen, Peng Zhang, et al.. "Towards Trustworthy Mobile Social Networking" New York, NYMobile Social Networking: An Innovative Approach (2013) p. 195 - 235
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yu_chen/19/