Abstract:
The popularity of smart phones fosters the growth of Proximity-based Mobile Social Networking (PMSN). Although some profile matching approaches have been proposed to faci...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The popularity of smart phones fosters the growth of Proximity-based Mobile Social Networking (PMSN). Although some profile matching approaches have been proposed to facilitate a user to find another user that shares his/her interest in the proximity, these approaches usually model the matching problem as a Private Set Intersection problem or a Private Set Intersection Cardinality problem and require high complexity of computation. Different from current studies, to facilitate more effective building of PMSNs, we propose a novel similarity metric to evaluate the common interests of mobile users by considering the time-dependent features of their interests. To calculate the metric in a low cost and privacy- protection way, we propose a novel time-dependent bloom filter to encode the time-dependent interest and a novel probabilistic algorithm to estimate the time- dependent similarity metric based on the bloom filter. Based on the proposed BF-based profile matching approach, we further propose InterestMatch, a novel distributed mobile communication system to facilitate more efficient social networking among strangers in the physical proximity. We have done extensive experiments on real-world phones, our experiment results demonstrate that our approach is promising for facilitating mobile social interactions in the physical proximity due to its low complexity and consequently low power consumption.
Published in: 2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
Date of Conference: 27-30 June 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 November 2016
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