Table 1 Taxonomy of the current survey works of MSN
From: Content distribution and protocol design issue for mobile social networks: a survey
Subjects | Survey works of MSN | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[67] | [68] | [69] | [70] | [71] | [72] | [73] | [74] | [75] | [76] | [77] | |||
MSN software system layer | MSN software system architecture | ||||||||||||
Applications and services | Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Web-based services | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Methods | Mobile software platforms—commercial and based on Internet | ✓ | |||||||||||
Mobile software platforms—based on hybrid network for distributed computing/application development | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Mobile operating systems | ✓ | ||||||||||||
MSN network layer | Wireless access infrastructures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Middleware designs for network services | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Protocol designs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
MSN network architectures | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
MSN transport layer | Content distribution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||