Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mobile Social Networking

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In this section, we provide background information about the mobile social networking.
2.1 Mobile Social Network
Nowadays, you can see the mobile device with everyone. This large rise of mobile device usage, give it high priority in development. Mobile device now became more advanced, with allowing internet access and open source for the application development. It gives the user with a lot of ways for communication, entertainment, and information. Also, it has bought for mobile user’s unlimited access for online social network information, and provides location based service (LBS). LBS open new direction to mobile application developer that was not exit before, by using the location feature such as finding the nearest restaurant, locating …show more content…

The architecture categorized based on the communication pattern to client – server architecture, peer-to-peer architecture and hybrid architecture.
a. Client – Server Architecture
Client–server architecture is the most common architecture represents the MSNs, as it shows in Figure 1. It consists of service provider that stores all the information about the users of MSN in remote server, which may include an enhanced third party application servers e.g. SMTP Mail server, Voip Servers. Also, network infrastructure includes a cellular network and Wi-Fi that is used to connect client device to the service provider. This architecture called centralized because all the communication has to get through the service provide. One of it is advantage is that he is clear and can offer good quality of services (QoS). On the other hand, his disadvantage is that all the communication has to get through one source, which loads to a lot of head in the server. Also, with only one storage location that have to deals with all the information …show more content…

family, or friends. The relationship represented in the graph as edges between the nodes and the strength of the relationship by weight value. The strength defined by many indicators such as frequency, which means the more the two users contact each other the stronger their relationship strength well be. Intimacy is represents the long in time of the relationships. Also the Recency, that means the last contact happen between two nodes. And last, The Homogeneity refers to the degree of having the same interest between the

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