TY - JOUR
T1 - Architecture of Hybrid Mobile Social Networks for Efficient Content Delivery
AU - Akhtar, Rizwan
AU - Leng, Supeng
AU - Memon, Imran
AU - Ali, Mushtaq
AU - Zhang, Liren
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant (No. 61374189), New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (NCET-10-0294), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. ZYGX2013J009), and EU FP7 Project CLIMBER (PIRSESGA-2012-318939).
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - Content delivery is one of the most important technologies used in Mobile Social Networks (MSNs). Smart devices could enable mobile users to create and use a rich set of services through available resources in the surrounding environment opportunistically. This paper presents the framework of distributed buffer storage aided hybrid Mobile Social Networks (MSN). Based on this, we propose a new scheme with distributed storage for efficient end-to-end content delivery in intermittently connected MSNs. Our proposed hybrid architecture is able to offer fast and reliable delivery services by distributing buffer storage located close to mobile users of the opportunistic MSN. Simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, which indicate that it is helpful to improve network performance in terms of content delivery ratio, throughput and end-to-end delays.
AB - Content delivery is one of the most important technologies used in Mobile Social Networks (MSNs). Smart devices could enable mobile users to create and use a rich set of services through available resources in the surrounding environment opportunistically. This paper presents the framework of distributed buffer storage aided hybrid Mobile Social Networks (MSN). Based on this, we propose a new scheme with distributed storage for efficient end-to-end content delivery in intermittently connected MSNs. Our proposed hybrid architecture is able to offer fast and reliable delivery services by distributing buffer storage located close to mobile users of the opportunistic MSN. Simulation experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, which indicate that it is helpful to improve network performance in terms of content delivery ratio, throughput and end-to-end delays.
KW - Content delivery
KW - Mobile social networks
KW - Network storage
KW - Opportunistic communications
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U2 - 10.1007/s11277-014-1996-4
DO - 10.1007/s11277-014-1996-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943588851
SN - 0929-6212
VL - 80
SP - 85
EP - 96
JO - Wireless Personal Communications
JF - Wireless Personal Communications
IS - 1
ER -