Mobile social applications have emerged in recent years. They explore social connections among mobile users in a variety of novel scenarios, including friend finding, message routing, and content sharing. However, efficiently supporting resource-demanding delay-sensitive streaming applications on the mobile platform remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we study collaborative VoD-type streaming of short videos among small groups of mobile users, so as to effectively exploit their social relationships. Such an application is practically set in a number of usage scenarios, including streaming of introductory video clips of exhibition items to visitors' mobile devices, such as in a museum. We design SMS, an architecture that engineers such Streaming over Mobile Social networks. SMS constructs a collaborative streaming overlay by carefully inspecting social connections among users and infrastructural characteristics of Bluetooth technologies. We evaluate our design based on prototype implementation on the Android platform. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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Kong, C., Wu, C., & Li, V. O. K. (2011). SMS: Collaborative streaming in mobile social networks. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6641 LNCS, pp. 275–287). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20798-3_21
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