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Opportunistic mobile social networks: architecture, privacy, security issues and future directions
Author(s) -
Vimitha R Vidhya Lakshmi,
T. Gireesh Kumar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 2088-8708
DOI - 10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp1145-1152
Subject(s) - computer science , internet privacy , computer security , architecture , mobile computing , mobile technology , boom , the internet , mobile web , mobile device , mobile broadband , social network (sociolinguistics) , mobile telephony , telecommunications , world wide web , mobile radio , social media , wireless , engineering , art , environmental engineering , visual arts
Mobile Social Networks and its related applications have made a very great impact in the society. Many new technologies related to mobile social networking are booming rapidly now-a-days and yet to boom. One such upcoming technology is Opportunistic Mobile Social Networking. This technology allows mobile users to communicate and exchange data with each other without the use of Internet. This paper is about Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks, its architecture, issues and some future research directions. The architecture and issues of Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks are compared with that of traditional Mobile Social Networks. The main contribution of this paper is regarding privacy and security issues in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks. Finally, some future research directions in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks have been elaborated regarding the data's privacy and security.

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